Anglo-Saxon Bronze Bow Brooch

GBP 375.00

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Object Description

An Anglo-Saxon bronze bow brooch with a decorated, trefoil head. The brooch has a large head-plate with crescent-shaped wings on three sides, known as trefoil head. This leads to a short, arched bow that tapers into an elongated flaring foot-plate. The reverse is undecorated and there are traces of where the pin – now missing – would have been. The wings have retained their original pleasant pattern of small crescents that stop at the border of the head-plate.

Date: Circa 5th – 6th Century BC

Object Condition

Very good. Signs of wear such as tarnsishing, there is no pin for fastening on the back. Lovely patinaton over the whole of the brooch.

Object Details

  • dimensions
    W:2.5 x H:5.7 centimeters

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The Gallery
Trent Park Equestrian Centre
Eastpole Farm House, Bramley Road
Oakwood, N14 4UW, United Kingdom

St James's Ancient Art
10 Charles II Street, Ground Floor
St James
London
SW1Y 4AA

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