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Early Medieval Great Square-headed Brooch Fragment
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Ian Whitehead, 2018-01-11 12:22:33
Title
Early Medieval Great Square-headed Brooch Fragment
Description
English: A fragment of a cast copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo-Saxon brooch, probably a great square-headed brooch dating from AD 400 - 600. Only part of the head-plate and part of the upper half of the bow survive.

The surviving part of the head-plate has two rectangular panels alongside the top of the bow. These bear scrolled decoration. The bow is ridged or fluted longitudinally with a wide central rib flanked by wide grooves, and a raised outer edge on each side. The stumps of a pair of integrally cast perforated lugs are present on the back of the head-plate; the missing iron spring/pin mechanism would have been attached to these.The breaks are very worn and fully patinated. The brooch has a rich dark brown patina. The fragment is 24.3mm long,33.7mm wide and 11mm thick. 15.7g.

The brooch can be compared to SUSS-160236 which has similar scrolled decoration. The record notes that the scrolled decoration "is paralleled on a silver great square-headed brooch of Hines Group I from Dartford, Kent (Hines 1997, pl.2(a), 324), but also on a Kentish square-headed brooch from Bifrons (Leeds 1949, no.2) and two unclassified square-headed brooches from the Fens (Hines 1997, pl.95(a and b)." and suggests that a relationship with the brooches of Hines' Group I (the manufacture of which he dates to circa 500-520) seems probable. LVPL-8533A7 also has similar scrolled decoration.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 400 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 881967
Old ref: SWYOR-354108
Filename: SWYOR354108EarlyMedievalBroochFragment.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/643862
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/643862/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/881967
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Object location53° 26′ 34.08″ N, 0° 24′ 40.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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