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Early Medieval small-long brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Edward Caswell, 2020-08-03 13:00:28
Title
Early Medieval small-long brooch
Description
English: The foot of an incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval small-long brooch dating to c. AD 450-550. Only the foot and catchplate of the brooch survives. 

The head and bow of the brooch are lost to an old break, with only a very small fragment of the apparently sub-rectangular narrow bow extending from the top of the object. Below this is the complete foot. The foot first widens from the bow on either side and then narrows again so that it forms a soft rounded point, the right being slightly chipped. Below this the point the foot is straight sided for a short distance before widening to a flared foot that is the same width as the upper points. The bottom of the brooch is flat. A D-shaped catchplate projects from the back of the bow just below the break of the bow. This is flat in cross section. 

The front of the brooches' foot has incise pellet dot decoration. This consists of  a line of seven dots running down the centre of the brooch. Below this is an eight much bigger incised pellet dot. Two similarly sized pellet dots extend from the left and right side of this each forming a line pointing to the flared corner of the brooch. Two more final large incised pellet dots are placed in the centre of each  of the triangular points formed on the upper part of the foot. The reverse is plain and undecorated.

The entire brooch has a medium green patina.

The brooch is 30mm long, 18mm wide 2.59mm thick and weighs 6.89 grams.

This fragment has the same form and decoration of a more complete brooch on the PAS database (KENT4742) defined as a class D due to its square head. The size of this fragment is comparable to other small long brooches although such a sub-class is not possible without the head in this instance. Small long brooches have been included in the chronological work of <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/publications/publication/id/2799">Penn and Brugmann (2007)</a> who concur with <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/publications/publication/id/200">MacGregor and Bolick (1991)</a> in allocating a date-range of c. 450-550 AD.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 450 and 550
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FindIdentifier: 1008498
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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/1111292
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1111292/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1008498
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location51° 44′ 19.32″ N, 1° 10′ 12.11″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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