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Early Anglo-Saxon brooch fragment
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2008-02-29 17:25:23
Title
Early Anglo-Saxon brooch fragment
Description
English: A fragment of a cast copper-alloy square headed brooch head, John Hines has commented that the fragment is an interesting and relatively important piece. It's a fragment of the headplate of a group IX great square-headed brooch: not a very populous group but of considerable importance in the genealogy of Great Square Headed Brooch design in East Anglia (Hines pers comm 2008).

The fragment is very worn with pale green active corrosive products. Measuring 36.66mm by 33.25mm in size. The front face is decorated with a central stylised possible horse-head, with bulbous eyes, surrounding this are rectangular panels of intricate chipcarving, there are traces of gilding. On the back face there is the remains of a pin loop.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 500 and 700
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FindID: 210989
Old ref: SF-558110
Filename: MNLSF-558110.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/167143
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/167143/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/210989
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