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A cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date
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Suffolk County Council, Andrew Brown, 2014-01-17 14:59:22
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A cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date. It is missing the foot, catchplate and pin due to old breaks. The headplate is flat, rectangular in form with narrow central panel and very narrow wings. At the top of the head is an integrally cast and fully round knob. This is oval sectioned with a narrow waist and flaring collar decorated with a deep transverse/circumferential groove. On the back face of the headplate is an integrally cast pin lug that is flat, D-shaped in profile and with a circular aperture containing iron corrosion resultant from the now missing pin. The bow is steeply arched, rectangular in form and D-shaped in section. At top and bottom it has flattened rectangular panels with single triangular notches to each side. The complete upper panel has an incised transverse groove and the front face of the bow has a projecting, flattened vertical mid rib. The entire object has a green patina that is pitted in places and shows signs of post-depositional corrosion. It measures 39.30mm in length, 9.16mm in width (at headplate; 9.25mm in width at bow), 4.41mm in thickness at bow, and 6.98g in weight.

This is an incomplete Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The small headplate and fully round knob suggest a relatively early date for the brooch and parallels are published from elsewhere in Suffolk (e.g. West, 1998: nos. 19.2, 100.8, 128.11, 129.2, 133.11). It is of probable 5th century AD date.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 450 and 500
Accession number
FindID: 554237
Old ref: SF-2CF035
Filename: WKS_SF-2CF035.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/452949
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/452949/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/554237
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