5th century AD. A large elaborate bronze openwork equal-arm brooch of Type Nesse 2, comprising two panels of chip-carved Late Roman Military Style scrolled-tendril ornament with scooped outer ends, arcaded long outer edges and three prominent loops with beast-heads lugs; inner edges joined by arched bands with beast-head lugs to the void; deep bow with opposed beast-heads and prominent median raised bar; traces of mineralised woven fabric to both faces; two pierced pin-lugs to the reverse. See Bruns, D. Germanic Equal-Arm Brooches of the Migration Period, BAR International Series 1113, Oxford, 2003, item 33 (Collingbourne Ducis"). Reported to Portable Antiquities Scheme; reference forthcoming. 89 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Found near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2014. This brooch is a close match for the one found in Grave 6 at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire; it is the only known example of similar complexity to that find. It belongs to Type Nesse 2; the Nesse 1 type is found primarily in the Elbe-Weser region of northern Germany (Bruns p.27), which is the supposed homeland of the Saxons; the Nesse 2 type, derived from Nesse 1, is not numerous (even compared to the other comparatively rare types of equal-arm brooch) with three examples known from England (Collingbourne Ducis, Westgarth Gardens, Abingdon) and one from Oberhausen (Germany"). The fact that the English Type Nesse finds are more complex than the continental ones has led to the suggestion that Nesse 2 developed fully in England, with the move towards a very fine, almost filigree appearance to the edges of the plates.The Collingbourne Ducis brooch is the largest of its type at 13.4cm length; the present example is slightly shorter but is still exceptionally large. The openwork tracery makes the brooch lighter than a solid plate would have been. Fine, as found condition. Extremely rare.