File:Early Saxon great square headed brooch fragment (FindID 1008424).jpg

English: Fragment of gilded copper alloy early Saxon great square-headed brooch. Hines type XVI. The fragment comprises a doubly-fenestrated rectangular headplate, with broken upper and lower corners on one side. The pin mechanism is missing on the reverse but the bow survives and has two longitudinal deep grooves running its length and a central applied 20mm diameter button-shaped disc riveted through the full thickness. The three raised bands created by the two grooves in the bow are decorated along their length by punched dots. The footplate is missing at the junction of the bow. The headplate has three sections of relief decoration, the outer damaged frame consisting of simple punched dots. This is also the case around the middle inner panel with a rectangular geometric column running between the two sub-square holes in the headplate. The second panel has scroll forms as uprights and geometric designs running across the upper and lower part of the panel. The separate riveted circular disc attached to the apex of the bow has a concentric raised circular undecorated centre with a lower circular flange, the top of which is missing from old breaks. The remainder of the flange is decorated with radially arranged triangles punched with circular dots. The lower reverse of the headplate has the remains of twin lugs that would have accommodated the pin mechanism. There is no surviving trace of gilding on the reverse, but the front face has significant amounts extant in the crevices of the relief. Circa AD 500-560.