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Anglo Saxon brooch fragment
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Durham County Council, Lauren Pratt, 2015-03-16 14:38:21
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Anglo Saxon brooch fragment
Description
English: A fragment of copper alloy cruciform brooch dating to the early early-medieval period, c. AD 450-550.

The head and most of the bow of the brooch are missing with the base of the bow present, curving to meet the foot plate. There are a series of horizontal bands and raised collars across the upper part of the foot of the brooch before it terminates in an animal head terminal. This animal head has two raised pellets which represent the eyes. Below the eyes are comma-shaped nostrils, flat undecorated circles with small oblique extensions running upward and outward. Below is a flat sub-triangular projection. The back of the object is flat and undecorated with the remains of the catchplate present on the reverse of the upper, flat part of the foot.

There are similar cruciform footplates listed in MacGregor and Bolick (1993: 106-7).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northumberland
Date between 450 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 711048
Old ref: DUR-6EA782
Filename: DUR6EA782.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/509354
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/509354/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/711048
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 17 November 2020)
Object location55° 09′ 11.16″ N, 2° 02′ 31.31″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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