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Early-medieval brooch: Great square headed broch fragments
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Oxfordshire County Council, Anni Byard, 2014-06-17 13:45:38
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Early-medieval brooch: Great square headed broch fragments
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English: Two worn cast copper alloy fragments of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. One fragment is from the bow of the brooch and has an arched upper section with the remains of three raised ribs; beneath this is a worn broadly triangular section that depicts the face of a fantastical creature with pronounced eyebrows, eyes and cheek bones and a curled snout or mouth reminiscent of a handlebar moustach. The reverse of the bow section has two broken lugs that would have held the hinged pin. This section measures 20.2mm wide x 21.9mm high and weighs 6.9gms.

The second fragment may be one of the arm or wing sections of the brooch, and again may have the face of a fantastical creature; a raised central rib is present on this fragment. This section measures 15.9mm wide x 17.2 long x 2.2 thick. It weighs 1.8gms. The fragments are too small to be able to ascertain what class (or Hines' Type) of great-square headed brooch it belongs to, however Dr Kevin Leahy has commented on this style of brooch with the face element, and dates them to c. AD 520-570.
Depicted place (County of findspot) West Berkshire
Date between 520 and 570
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FindID: 622570
Old ref: BERK-EF2371
Filename: 2014067.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/473087
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/473087/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/622570
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