File:Early medieval copper alloy square headed brooch (FindID 819321).jpg

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Early medieval copper alloy square headed brooch
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Leicestershire County Council, Wendy Scott, 2016-12-08 09:02:42
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Early medieval copper alloy square headed brooch
Description
English: Early medieval great square headed brooch fragments (4),

The largest fragment is that of a head plate and has an irregular form, missing all its edges. It has a central rectangular motif formed of incised lines. This has a row of three oval incised motifs above, and this is contained by a ladder like border of two vertical incised lines with transverse lines. beyond this the object only has part of its side decoration, consisting of 'squares' formed of incised lines of different alignment. In the top right there are two incomplete circular holes, suggesting at least some of the plate was bordered by a row of holes. The back of the plate has traces of two parallel semi-circular lugs in its centre.

The small fragment apepars to be part of the headplate, with similar decoration of incised lines. The bow is decorated with three vertical bands of decoration. This is incomplete and the object is covered in iron staning.

The terminal (found by a second person) has 'scalloped' sides which appear intact? it is decorated with a face mask consisting of an incised triangular nose which expands outwards at its apex to form eyebrows, with two circles forming the eyes below. Above is a horizontal incised line and below are vertical short incisions. The reverse has the trace of a catchplate running down its centre.

The whole of the surface of each fragment is heavily gilded.

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desc. L W T Wgt
headplate 51 35 2.0 21.00
bow 33 23 2.0 19.00
frag. 21 11 2.0 2.34
terminal 24 24 5.0 7.82
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Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 500 and 570
Accession number
FindID: 819321
Old ref: LEIC-91B851
Filename: LEIC91B851a.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/593791
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/593791/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/819321
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