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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Colchester derivative type with variant Polden Hill spring attachment. Upper half only, missing spring. pin; bent; very corroded. The ends of the wings have 12mm wide tabs folded around to hold the spring axis bar; a rear hook held the chord. The wings have a pair of diagonal grooves and probably a pair of vertical grooves at the terminals. D-section bow, slightly tapering, has three longitudinal grooves along the centre.Width 45mm, surviving length 44mm. This type is as Scole (Mackreth in Rogerson 1977, EAA 5, 130) no.2 and West Stow (West 1989, EAA 48, 71) no. 160, but none of the Suffolk egs are as large as this one - the largest, from Martlesham (MRM 033) being 36mm wide. | Subjects: | Colchester derivative (Polden Hill) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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