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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date, probably a cruciform or small long brooch. It is missing the foot, pin and sides of the head due to old breaks. The headplate is square in form with vertical grooves to each side but missing both edges due to old breaks. At the top is an integrally cast knop that is fully round, with transverse collar, narrow neck, and worn globular terminal. On the back face of the head are the remains of a single pin lug that has extensive iron corrosion where the spring and pin would have originally been positioned. From the base of the head extends the integral bow. This is rectangular in form, curved in profile and with decoration on its front face. At top and bottom of the bow are rectangular panels, each of which has single triangular notches to each side and single transverse grooves at top and bottom. The bow in between is faceted with a flattened central vertical rib. At the base of the bow extends the remains of the integrally cast foot. This is rectangular in form and decorated on its from face with an incised cross saltire before terminating in old breaks, its precise form uncertain. On the back face of the foot is visible the top of the catchplate, now mostly missing due to old breaks. The entire object has green/brown patina that shows signs of post-depositional damage and corrosion in places. It measures 43.76mm in length, 11.79mm in width at head, 10.97mm in width at bpw, 2.91mm in thickness at bow, and 7.33g in weight.This is an incomplete long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. Its form indicates it is of cruciform or small long form, the small size of the head perhaps pointing to a date early in the Anglo-Saxon period, c.5th-6th centuries AD.
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