https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/ansate-brooch-58596.html Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:48:26 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		An incomplete copper-alloy Ansate brooch of the Middle Anglo-Saxon period. Comprising the arched bow with faceted decoration at the corners, and the arms, both are present, but abraded, one of them severely. Decoration on the arms consists of a central ring and dot motif surrounded by five smaller ones. On the back of the brooch are the remains of the hinge lugs and catchplate, the pin is missing.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/cruciform-brooch-58431.html Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:23:13 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A cruciform brooch of the Anglo-Saxon period. The expanded headplate has a slightly trapezoidal-shaped raised central panel, decorated with a line of punched wrigglework along both vertical edges. The top and side knobs are integral to the casting, they are half-round with a deep flute on each one. The bow is short and highly arched, with a triangular facet at each corner. Under the bow are two flat outwardly projecting lappets, also bearing wrigglework decoration, below the lappets are lateral bands of beaded and ribbed decoration. The foot terminal is portrayed as a stylised zoomorphic animal head with protruding eyes, large flaring nostrils, and a flat expanded noseplate. On the back of the brooch are the iron encrusted remains of the pin lugs and the catchplate with curved return which sits behind the lappets, the pin, probably iron is missing.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/small-long-brooch-58217.html Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:18:55 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		An incomplete small-long brooch of the Anglo-Saxon period. The brooch has a rectangular head with a framed central panel, around the top and sides of which there is a wide decorated border. The decoration within the border consists of inner and outer lines of contiguous ring-and-dot motifs. The central panel is plain except for a line of small Y-shaped indentations around the periphery. The short bow is decorated with a large central ring-and-dot motif, which is flanked on each side by a deep flute. Below the bow, the brooch has a pair of semicircular lappets flanking a framed central panel. The lappets are each decorated with two ring-and-dot motifs, and the central panel with Y-shaped indentations around the periphery, as on the head. The brooch is broken just below the lappets, and the lower end is missing. On the back of the brooch there is a pair of hinge lugs behind the head, and a catch plate behind the lappets. The pin is missing and there is damage to the corners and edges of the head.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/bow-brooch-57820.html Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:55:36 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		An incomplete but very unusual bow brooch of the Anglo-Saxon period. The surviving part consists of the head and bow only, so it is unclear whether the brooch was of small-long, radiate-headed or equal-armed type. The head is circular, but is itself unusual in that it is decorated only with three trefoil-shaped knobs at 9, 12 and 3 o'clock on the periphery, each with a small indentation in each lobe. It seems likely that the indentations originally held small glass gems, but none have survived. The back has double lugs for the pin, confirming that it is the head portion of the brooch, rather than the foot. The bow is of shallow D-shaped cross-section with four longitudinal ribs and three grooves. It would seem unlikely that the brooch is of the small-long type, as the heads of these are invariably rectangular or trefoil-shaped, whereas the head of the present brooch is fully circular with three trefoil knobs on the periphery. Some aspects of the brooch may be compared with the radiate-headed type of the 6th century, more specifically English copies of the classic continental type, which often have three peripheral knobs, rather than five. The ribbed bow is also of a style that is commonly found on this brooch type. Two arguments against the case for a radiate-headed brooch identification are the fully circular head and the lack of any surface decoration on it. Radiate-headed brooches, or at least the continental varieties, almost invariably have semi-circular heads, five knobs and elaborate decoration. The case for an equal-armed ('ansate' or handle-shaped) brooch identification is mainly the fully circular shape of the head and the fact that this is undecorated. If it is of this type, it would be a new sub-type under Rosie Weetch's Type II: Ansate brooches with disc-shaped terminals (see References below), as none of the present sub-types have peripheral knobs. Efforts to trace a close parallel have been unsuccessful, but a Frankish equal-armed brooch ('ansate' type) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is worthy of note, as it has a circular (but decorated) head and foot, and three peripheral (but single) knobs with indentations for glass gems. It is arguably the closest brooch we have found to the present one. A radiate-headed brooch recorded on the PAS database (NMS-C5EBB3) is also similar in certain respects, but it has a rounded sub-triangular head with moulded decoration and three single peripheral knobs.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/small-long-brooch-57679.html Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:16:29 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A small-long brooch dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The brooch has a flat rectangular head-plate which is now abraded to the corners. Decoration consists of linear stamped annulets to the periphery of the head-plate, which is visible to the top edge only. The bow is arched and the leg terminates in a collared sub-rectangular foot. On the back of the brooch, the single pin-lug and catchplate survive with the corroded remains of an iron pin.  See; WILT-3ABB30 as similar.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/ansate-or-equal-armed-brooch-57572.html Mon, 04 Sep 2023 19:48:49 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A copper-alloy Ansate or Equal-armed brooch of the middle Anglo-Saxon period, comprising the bow and the lower terminal with a rectangular catchplate on the rear. The bow is arched in profile, D-shaped in cross-section, and decorated with a small median groove at each end, a small flat collar separates the bow from the terminal which is now loosely circular. The terminal is decorated with multiple punched annulets arranged in a sub-square formation close to the outer edge. The opposed terminal and hinged pin are missing. Traces of a silver or tinned finish are visible in the punched annulets.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/cruciform-brooch-fragment-57340.html Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:56:58 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A cast copper-alloy side knob originating from an Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. The knob depicts a moustached and bearded human face-mask, with prominent pelleted eyes, wide nose, and a brow band of raised rectangles above. Each side of the face are zoomorphic mouldings depicting inward facing beaks, each curved and representational of carrion or bird of prey.  The design has been gilded, and much survives within the recesses of the design. The end of the knob has a plain flat panel, which was originally plated with silver foil for decorative contrast to the gilt detailing. The back is undecorated and has no evidence of fixing. The knob is one of three integrally projecting side elements to the top of the brooch, which has fractured and broken off at the junction with the central headplate. Possibly also from the same brooch, see UKDFD 57341. For a complete example of this type of brooch with integral projections and lappets, see FAKL-BD5E61. See also UKDFD 19486.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/cruciform-brooch-fragment-57341.html Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:01:12 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A cast copper-alloy side knob originating from an Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. The knob depicts a moustached and bearded human face-mask, with prominent pelleted eyes, wide nose, and a brow band of raised rectangles above. Each side of the face are zoomorphic mouldings depicting inward facing beaks, each curved and representational of carrion or bird of prey.  The design has been gilded, and much survives within the recesses of the design. The end of the knob has a flat panel which has been surface plated with a thick silver foil, this being soldered into place for a decorative contrast to the gilt detailing above. The back is undecorated and has no evidence of fixing. The knob is one of three integrally projecting side elements to the top of the brooch, which has fractured and broken off at the junction with the central headplate. Possibly also from the same brooch, see UKDFD 57340. For a complete example of this type of brooch with integral projections and lappets, see FAKL-BD5E61. See also UKDFD 46506.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/small-long-brooch-5643.html Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A square- headed small-long brooch of the Anglo-Saxon period. The head and foot of the brooch are decorated overall with punched, closely spaced, ring-and-dot motifs. The bow is undecorated, and of triangular cross-section. The pin, invariably iron on this type, is missing. The brooch has a uniform olive green patina, and the recorder states that there are traces of tinning on the surface.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/brooches/bow-brooches/small-long-brooch-11956.html Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Bow brooches  

Description:		A  small-long brooch of the Anglo-Saxon period. The brooch has a rectangular head, a small bow and a triangular foot, possibly with a missing terminal. All are plain, with no evidence of decoration. On the back, parts of the spring-lug and catchplate survive, the former encased in corrosion from the iron spring. The pin is missing.
Category:		Early Medieval, Brooches, Bow brooches
Category:		Bow brooches

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