Record ID: CORN-40B360
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic foot from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, dating from the later 5th to the 6th century AD. The foot is in the form of a horse's head with flared rounded nostrils creating a semi-circular terminal, incised with a pair of oblique grooves to define them from the nose, and stamped with ring and dot motifs to create the texture of a hairy snout. Above the nostrils, the nose is plain and narrows towards two projecting triangular eyes. The eyes narrow from 3 mm in diameter at the base to points that are 1 mm in diameter, and are divided by an incised …
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-D9B9D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch in the form of a back-biting beast, dating from the Early Medieval period. The beast has two legs that are bent into a crouched position with larger rear haunches, a curved belly and neck that is turning the head to the right over the back. The head is defined by a curved groove between the neck and head, leading to the ear. There is also another crescent-shaped groove below the eye dividing the snout and mouth. The mouth consists of an open jaw that extends into three tendrils that terminate in scrolls to represent an upper and lower jar on either side of a to…
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
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Record ID: CORN-61CC2A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon Small-long brooch with just the head and part of the bow remaining. The head is in the form of a three-armed, square-headed cross with two circular openwork apertures between the bifid terminals of the arms, on the upper half of the cross, and two triangular openwork apertures between the projecting terminal and the side of the bow, on the lower half of the cross. The head has a linear border of four parallel grooves alternting with three parallel ridge. The base arm of the cross forms the beginings of the bow, curving upwards to a rectangul…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-A6B937
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy penannular brooch, oval in plan and in section, with flattened upper and lower faces and flattened and expanded square terminals with faceted lozenges on both faces. The surface is quite corroded and has recently been waxed, but the lozenges on the upper faces of the terminals appear to be have been punched with five internal annulets, one in the centre and one at each apex or point. The hoop is also decorated with concentric moulded ribs at millimetre intervals, that encircle the circumference of the hoop. The brooch is missing its pin which would have had a flatten…
Created on: Saturday 17th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 19th January 2015
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Record ID: CORN-273084
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy ansate ('handle-like') brooch decorated with equal-sized shield-shaped plates on either side of an arched bow, in profile, that is rectangular in plan, and semi-circular in section. Each plate has four punched ring-and-dot motifs, in a diamond formation, on the upper faces, and there is a singular ring-and-dot punched in the centre of the bow. The hinge, made up of two semi-circular perforated lugs, remains intact on the back of one of the plates, but is encrusted with iron corrosion product. The rest of the pin is missing, but on the back of the opposite terminal, t…
Created on: Wednesday 9th February 2011
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
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