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English: A gilded copper-alloy button brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, c. 450-550 AD. The brooch has been badly damaged and is very corroded, and all of the original edges are missing. It consists of an almost circular plate of copper-alloy with a pin bar lug and a catchplate. The pin bar lug projects from the reverse of the brooch; part of the iron pin bar survives, now heavily corroded to the main part of the brooch. The front of the brooch depicts the characteristic anthropomorphic face, but the upturned edges that one would expect to find on a button brooch have been broken off. All of the breaks are heavily corroded. The face is made up of a series of raised lines, and gilding survives in the depressions between these lines. It is likely that the whole front surface of the brooch was originally gilded. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated. The catchplate survives as a small bump on the edge of the brooch, opposite the pin bar lug; the catchplate and pin bar lug are aligned on the centre of the brooch. Due to the fact that the metal is so corroded the brooch has a surface patina of a mid lime-green colour.

The thickness measurement given below does not include the bar pin lug or the catchplate.