File:Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch fragment, Bewdley, Worcs. (FindID 160970).jpg

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Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch fragment, Bewdley, Worcs.
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2007-02-21 17:54:33
Title
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch fragment, Bewdley, Worcs.
Description
English: Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch fragment; the lower portion of the foot remains. Cast copper alloy. The foot is in the form of an animal’s head set beneath a moulding. Above the large pellets representing the eyes are grooves represnting the brows. Below the eyes are enlarged and stylised nostrils formed by two conjoined circles. The lower edge of the nostrils is broken. On the reverse of the fragment is a small portion of the catchplate. The surface has a heavy dark green patina. It measures 39.56mm long and 28.8mm wide across the nostrils. It weighs 9.92g. Cruciform brooches date to the 5th to 6th centuries. The more accurate dating depends on whether the knops are rounded, or half-rounded which become flatter in the 6th century (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide). As the knops are missing on this example more accurate dating is not possible. MacGregor and Bolick (MacGregor and Bolick 1993 A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections B.A.R. 120) illustrate similar brooches, for example Nos. 12.26 and 12.5. They comment that distribution of cruciform brooches are concentrated in East Anglia, East Midlands up to Tees.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Worcestershire
Date between 470 and 550
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FindID: 160970
Old ref: WAW-C83ED7
Filename: WAW-C83ED7.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/130999
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/130999/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/160970
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Object location52° 22′ 16.68″ N, 2° 19′ 21.04″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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