Cast Copper Alloy Cruciform Brooch

3D Model

Grave 96 Find 3

Cast copper alloy cruciform brooch which has a plain rectangular headplate with one simple half round knob and hollow back. There are polishing scratches on the headplate and the bow is plain apart from facets at both ends. The foot has a ‘horse’s head’ terminal, a slightly ribbed area above the eyes and its nose runs the length of the face, protruding beyond the foot and terminating in a perforation for attachment of a bead string.

Sherlock, S. J., & Welch, M. G. (2002). An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Norton, Cleveland. In Council for British Archaeology Research Reports. Archaeology Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081683