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English: An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) ansate brooch, dating to c. AD 700-1000. It consists of a slightly curved bow, which has two symmetrical disc terminals. The bow has a sub-triangular cross-section and has three rows of two adjacent incised ring-and-dot motifs in the front face; the back face of the bow is slighty concave. The front face of the terminals have an engraved cross potent; the back face of one terminal has two slightly bent pierced lugs, which are blocked by iron fragments. The second terminal seems to have a sub-rectangular cross-sectioned iron rivet pierced through its centre; that might the a repairing in the catch-plate now missing, stains of iron sorrosion products are on both the front and back faces. The surfaces bears possibly traces of white metal coating

In the process of cleaning the brooch the finder found a grain of orangish brown possibly quartz or other mineral in one of the recessed dot of the front decoration of the bow. The grain has been kept in a small bag along with the find in the case that it could have been a sign of enamel or other sort of decoration proper of the brooch; no other examples have been found with such kind of inlay, therefore the grain is more likely to be a sand grain blocked in the recess during ground deposition.

Weetch Type 2 (2014, vol. 1, pp. 142-148).

Length: 48.02 mm

Width of the bow: 9.50 mm

Diameter of the terminals: 15.56 mm

Thickness of the bow: 4.83 mm

Weight: 10.89 g