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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1907.29.1 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name brooch, square headed brooch Description Anglo-Saxon gilded copper alloy square-headed brooch, hybrid square headed and florid cruciform type. The square plate itself has small lobes on the corners. Clusters of eyes appear to peer out from the panels on the plate and stem. Hooked silver bird beaks spring from the side of the stem. A rivet on the bow once affixed a disc or stud which is no longer present. One of the lobes on the head of the brooch is broken as is one of the loops on the base of the stem. Production period Anglo-Saxon, 6th Century Material copper Technique casting, gilding Dimensions width: 70.00 mm length: 124.00 mm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1907.29.1
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

brooch, square headed brooch
Description

Anglo-Saxon gilded copper alloy square-headed brooch, hybrid square headed and florid cruciform type. The square plate itself has small lobes on the corners. Clusters of eyes appear to peer out from the panels on the plate and stem. Hooked silver bird beaks spring from the side of the stem. A rivet on the bow once affixed a disc or stud which is no longer present. One of the lobes on the head of the brooch is broken as is one of the loops on the base of the stem.
Production period

Anglo-Saxon, 6th Century
Material

copper
Technique

casting, gilding
Dimensions

Details