|
Date: |
|
Description: | Early Medieval cast copper alloy, cruciform brooch of 'Florid' type or Leeds 'Type C2' only a fragment of the foot survives. This is decorated with an animal's face with two globular eyes, over which is raised band representing the brows. The band extends between the eyes before diverging to meet two hollows surrounded by rings. Above the face is a transverse moulding marked by a number of worn grooves. Drilled through the face is a 3.0mm diameter hole. On the underside of the fragment are the remains of the catchplate and some traces of iron staining. This fragment can be closely paralleled by brooches in what was Leeds Type C2 'great square headed brooch'. (Leeds 1949, 79-82, Nos. 131-5). While Leeds included these brooches in his study of great square headed brooches they are now seen as being developed from Florid cruciform brooches. Type C2 are most common in the East Riding of Yorkshire which is appropriate for this find. Length 26.4mm, Width 21.8mm, Thickness 2.8mm, Mass 7.70g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
BROOCH
Head-plate from a copper-alloy brooch…
-
-
BROOCH
The foot of a copper-alloy…
-
Brooch
Incomplete gilt copper alloy Florid…
-
BROOCH
Incomplete gilt copper alloy Florid…
-
Brooch
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, copper alloy…
-
BROOCH
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, copper alloy…
-
BROOCH
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, copper alloy…
-
BROOCH
A cast copper-alloy brooch of…
-
BROOCH
Small flat copper alloy fragment,…
|