6th century AD. A suite of brooches and beads comprising: a bronze cruciform brooch with three collared knops to the rectangular headplate with raised trapezoidal panel, carinated bow with vertical moulding, beast-head lappets, horse-head finial with raised pellet eyes and scrolled nostrils, pin-lugs to the reverse with catch and remains of the ferrous pin; two flat bronze annular brooches each with groups of radiating strokes, one with remains of the ferrous pin; restrung group of graduated deep blue glass annular beads. Cf. MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E., A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals), Oxford, 1993, item 12.18 (cruciform); ibid. 10.32 (annular); Brugmann, B., Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves, Oxford, 2004, item 94b (beads"). 146 grams total, 4.2-52cm (1 1/2 - 20 1/2"). Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman; acquired on UK art market; previously in a Suffolk, UK, collection. [4] Condition Report Fine condition.