File:Anglo-Saxon brooch, Head, bow and foot of small long brooch, cruciform style, copper alloy (FindID 183208).jpg

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Anglo-Saxon brooch: Head, bow and foot of small long brooch, cruciform style, copper alloy
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Northamptonshire County Council, Steven Ashby, 2007-06-19 19:14:03
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Anglo-Saxon brooch: Head, bow and foot of small long brooch, cruciform style, copper alloy
Description
English: Two fragments (head and foot) of an Early Anglo-Saxon cast copper alloy small long brooch, copying the 'cruciform' type. Such brooches were commonest in the 6th century.

Around the 6th century AD , relatively crude imitations of cruciform and square-headed brooches were produced, and these are termed 'small long brooches' (Hattatt 1985: 211).

Taken together, these fragments represent a good example of the type, measuring 63mm (combined length) x 7.7 (max width), x 4.6mm (thickness at apex of bow), and weighing 13g in total. The head is 25.1mm long, 24mm wide, and weighs 6g. The bow and foor are 37.9mm long, and weighs 7g.

A single lug is evident on the reverse, and iron corrosion represents the original pin. The bow is sharply curved, but the slightly splayed foot is decorated only with horizontal incised lines, rather than the zoomorphic ornament typical of true cruciform brooches. The head is stamped with multiple ring-and-dot motifs, and its wings are small and hemispherical. The brooch's surface shows signs of bronze diseaase.

This brooch bears very close resemblance to NARC-EFD0E6, from the same site.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date between 500 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 183208
Old ref: NARC-EFCE90
Filename: NARC-EFCE90 brooch entire.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/142151
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/142151/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/183208
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Object location52° 14′ 58.2″ N, 0° 56′ 47.65″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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