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Description: | Elaborate silvered Headstud brooch. Light brooch with short wings. Hinged pin with a bronze axis bar, small catchplate of usual type reaching barely half of the bow length. Solid suspension loop on head. Moulded foot which is flat bottomed. The bow is decorated with silvered copper alloy diamond shapes aligned vertically. These are set within a long rectangle, therefore leaving triangular recesses all along either side of the triangles. Thes recesses are filled with purple enamel.
This brooch is very similar to one illustrated in Hattatts Ancient and Romano-British Brooches, fig. 27b, from Owmby | Subjects: | Headstud | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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