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Anglo-Saxon gilt copper alloy Cruciform/Florid/Great Square headed brooch.
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Title
Anglo-Saxon gilt copper alloy Cruciform/Florid/Great Square headed brooch.
Description
English: An incomplete gilt copper alloy brooch dating to the Anglo-Saxon period, circa 6th century AD. Only the headplate of the brooch remains.

The headplate has a rectangular panel in the centre containing Style I decoration; what appears to be both a human mask at the top and perhaps a disjointed beast below. The mask has pointed-oval eyes and a long flowing beard comprising two pairs of thick wavy lines. Two further masks are located one either side of the rectangular panel facing inwards. These two masks are slightly different in that the beard is a hatched crescent arching from ear to ear.

Extending from the rectangular panel are three shovel-shaped side knops. Tbe three knops are conjoined and leave an oval opening between them and the headplate. Each knop is decorated with a sub-triangular panel with moulded linear borders.

The brooch is broken at the bottom of the headplate. Gilding survives mainly in the recesses.

It is not clear what this brooch should be correctly classified as. All of the headplate elements are common on Group V 'Florid' brooches but they have been joined together. This fusing of the cruciform elements is a feature of a series of northern brooches which ET Leeds described as his Type C2 Great Square-headed. Later workers, like Hines, consider these brooches not to be Great Square Headed Brooches but as cruciform variants.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 500 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 245915
Old ref: LIN-97FDC8
Filename: LIN7790.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/201224
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/201224/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/245915
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