English: Late Early Medieval copper-alloy zoomorphic brooch in the shape of a bird, possibly a cockerel. Flat in section with incised decoration on one face showing a bird, facing left, with downward pointing beak, small crest on the head, pointed wing extending up and backwards and thick curved tail. The feet are openwork but the the brooch is broken and/or worn at the point of the feet. There are various incised circles decorating the head, neck and wing, including one for the eye and a lozenge arrangement of four circles on the wing. Each of these circles appear to contain traces of a infill, although the whole brooch surface was probably originally coated with a white metal layer, possibly tinning or silvering. On the reverse there is a semi-circular loop and a trace of the hinge fitting for the now missing pin fitting. This object can be compared with a series of bird brooches of later Early Medieval date, which have feet standing on a 'perch'. Other bird brooches of the same or related types which can be found on the PAS database include NMS-E7F720 (this entry has further refs), NARC-7B5E68, SF-AD5FA7, SF-7B3CA5, SF-BCC403, SUSS-44F203, DENO-0604D2 and KENT-9F6987.

Brooches of this type are dated AD c.850-1000.