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Description: | A fragment of a copper alloy early-medieval/Anglo-Saxon (AD c.525-c.570) great square-headed brooch, missing everyting except the bow and part of the headplate. Overall, the fragment measures 48.6mm long, 32.1mm wide and 11.5mm thick. It weighs 18.6g.The surviving part of the headplate consists of the inner panel and small fragments of the second panel. The bow is almost completely intact, but nothing below it survives. The whole fragment is gilded but the the gilt has worn off the more exposed raised areas. The inner panel of the headplate is decorated with an inverted face mask. The fragments of the second panel are decorated with two lines of ungilded incised triangles running parallel to the edge of the inner panel, arranged so that there is a single line of lozenges running along the edge of the inner panel.The bow has a triple longitudinal ridge along its centre running from the centre of the inner panel's face mask to the bottom of the bow. There is also a double raised border along either side edge of bow, and at either end of the bow is a slightly raised crescent.At the centre of the reverse of the headplate are the stumps of two projecting loops that would have held the missing pin bar.The surviving details of this brooch can best be paralleled on the brooch from Mildenhall, Suffolk (Hines 1997, Fig. 75a, p. 335). This shows a similar 'eyes' motif and stamp decorated surround. The profile of the bow is also similar but is obscured on the Mildenhall find by the disc, riveted on to its apex. Hines place the Mildenhall brooch in his Group XVIII which belongs Phase 3, AD 525-70. An 'eye' motif was also used on the brooch from Broughton Lodge, Notts (Hines 1997, Pl. 35a) although other details differ.The inner panel measures 20.5mm long, 26.0mm wide and 2.3mm thick. The bow measures 28.2mm long, 19.4mm wide and 5.3mm thick.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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