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Description: | A fragment of a copper alloy possibly early medieval (AD c.500-c.600) possible great square-headed brooch or possible medieval mount (AD c.1100-c.1400). If it is a brooch, it consists of part of the head plate. If it is a mount it is missing more than half its original volume. Overall, the object measures 21.7mm long, 33.6mm wide and 4.7mm thick. It weighs 9.23g.The object is broadly in the shape of a right-angle triangle, but with a irregular hypotenuse edge which appears to have been caused by an old break. The object is mostly flat, but there is a pair of short projecting lugs on the reverse in the centre of the fragment. These may be the very worn stumps of the lugs used to hold the spring in place, if the object is a brooch. The obverse is decorated with three pairs of grooved straight lines converging on the centre of the broken edge. There are also other curving grooves, which may have formed an image but this is no longer decipherable. The execution of the decoration appears medieval rather than early-medieval, but Kevin Leahy (PAS National Finds Advisor) suggests that this might be a locally made and blundered copy a square headed brooch, like FAKL-BD0AB1.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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