An incomplete, gilded copper alloy strip brooch of early Medieval date (c. AD 700-950). The bow is lozengiform in shape and is formed from a single piece consisting of a central wide, flattened, lozenge-shaped plate (1.58mm thick). One end was elongated to form a hooked catch-plate which is now missing. Instead one finds a slightly curved, oblique break that occurred in antiquity given the greenish brown patina of the site of the break. The opposite end of the brooch was elongated to form what is now an incomplete spring and pin (1.99mm thick) - it has broken before completing a single loop and it is noted by Weetch (2014, pg140) ‘most of these brooches feature the single-coil pin spring, but some appear to have a more traditional pin fitting attached to the reverse of the lozenge-shaped plate.’
Find out more about this object on the PAS database: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1080959
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