6th century AD. A gilt bronze great square-head brooch comprising: trapezoidal headplate with raised rectangular panel above the junction with the bow, hatched band and row of pellets within a raised frame, outer band of Style I profile heads with roundels to the rim, L-shaped angles at the upper corners and knop to the middle of the upper edge; shallow bow with raised median and outer ribs, punched roundels between; square panel between the bird-head lappets with vertical rib, Style I ornament between discoid lobes with punched roundels and large ellipsoid finial with rosette detailing; pin-lugs and catch to the reverse. Cf. Hines, J., A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches, London, 1997; Nassington 33, pl.94b.88.3 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Found near Dullingham, Cambridgeshire, UK. As is usual with these large display brooches, no two are identical, but almost all the design features on it find parallels in the corpus published by Hines (1997"). The brooch sharing the greatest number of similarities is probably the example from Nassington, grave 33, (Hines's plate 94(b)) with a very similar layout to the headplate, including the angled 'braces' at the upper corners, the rosette lobes and finial. Hines assigns the Nassington brooch to his subgroup iv, to which the present brooch must also belong.