Square-Headed Bow Brooch
Unknown artist
Date: 500–600
Medium: Gilded copper alloy inlaid with niello
Dimensions: 5 3/8 in. × 3 in. × 15/16 in. (13.6 × 7.6 × 2.4 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Copper
Culture: Anglo-Saxon
Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Alastair B. Martin, Levy Hermanos Foundation Inc. and J. William Middendorf II Gifts, 1985
Met highlightDate range
500 – 600
Largest dimension
2.4 cm
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