Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2005-02-11 09:54:05
Title
Small long brooch
Description
English: An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small long brooch with the head and bow surviving and the rest of the brooch missing due to old breaks now worn. It measures 38.7mm in surviving length. The head plate is cruciform with T-shaped arms, it measures 18mm in length and 21.6mm in width. Each of the T-shaped arms has a pair of parallel transverse grooves across it. The bow is facted and has a parallel pair of transverse grooves at its top and base. On the reverse of the head plate there is a complete central pin loop with corroded iron in around it, presumably the remains of an iron pin.
This small long brooch is similar in form to a more elaborate example from Haslingfield, Cambs (McGregor and Bolick 1993, 139, no 15.56).
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Suffolk
Date
between 400 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 87012 Old ref: SF-9DE194 Filename: PALSF-9DE194.jpg
Credit line
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
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
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