A gilt-bronze bow brooch of florid cruciform type comprising: a square headplate with lateral bars, three D-shaped plaques to the sides each a Style I face formed from opposed profile bird-heads, scroll eyes and peltoid lower portion, billetted collar to the rear; a broad bow with facetted ends, central discoid panel; footplate with lateral bird-head lappets; terminal with Style I mask above addorsed bird-heads and a peltoid plaque; to the reverse, pin-lugs with ferrous accretion, hooked catchplate.

PROVENANCE:
Found East Anglia, UK, before 1960.

LITERATURE:
Cf. West, S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, fig.152 item 6.