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Description: | An incomplete, copper alloy, small-long brooch of early medieval date, about AD 500 - 600. The remaining portion consists of the bow and the foot; the head, the pin lug and pin have all broken away and are missing with a patinated break. The bow is triangular in section and steps down to a rectangular sectioned foot, which itself steps down to an expanded, flared triangular teminal. The bow is decorated with three short, transverse grooves on the vertical face at the base where it joins the foot. The foot is decorated with three transverse grooves near the bow, and a thicker, broad collar, also engraved with transverse grooves at each end. All of these grooves are on the upper side of the brooch alone; none of them continues to the underside. The catch plate remains in place on the underside of the foot, near the bow. The brooch has a smooth, dark brown patina. It is 49.2mm long, 9.3mm wide and 17.5mm thick. it weighs 6.91gm.Compare similar brooches illustrated in MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, Ashmolean Museum, A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections, pages 128 - 129.
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