File:Early medieval small long brooch (FindID 980616).jpg

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Early medieval small long brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Arwen Wood, 2019-11-15 14:36:27
Title
Early medieval small long brooch
Description
English: A fragment of an early medieval small long brooch, dating to the 5th to 6th century AD. The fragment is part of the head of the brooch, it is a cross shape with only two of the arms remaining. The arms of the cross have a narrow neck then widen to a rectangular shaped terminal. There are worn breaks where the bow and the other arm of the cross would have been. On the reverse there are two circular projections with circular notches in, this the remains of the pin hinge. The brooch has a dark green patina, and measures 20.9mm by 16.4mm, 6.5mm in thickness and weighs 3.77g.

A similar brooch can be seen in Macgregor and Bolick, 1993, page 145, number 15.77.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Buckinghamshire
Date between 400 and 600
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 980616
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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/1081327
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1081327/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/980616
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Object location52° 01′ 54.12″ N, 1° 06′ 59.47″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current02:25, 20 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 02:25, 20 November 20204,419 × 2,139 (2.59 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, BUC, FindID: 980616-1081327, early medieval, page 1065, batch count 2886

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