1996.95.16

Copper alloy, gilt, cross-brooch. Front is flat with central double outlined lozenge-shaped field filled with internal zoomorphic decoration, the four arms terminated in discoid lobe-like extensions outlined with punched-dot decoration. On the back two opposing terminals have small applied circular copper alloy sheets soldered in place, third termiminal has a small circular rivet hole, and the fourth is embedded in a lump of iron corrosion products from the remains of the iron pin. Textile fragments found on both front and back; on back perhaps traces of leather. Found below left jaw, Burial 13, an adult, at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Lower Farm, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire. Excavated by Kenneth Brown of Cheltenham Museum in July 1969.

525 - 600

6th century

copper alloy, gold, iron

cast, plated