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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, hinged T-shape type. Missing pin, slight damage on bow side and slightly bent. Iron corrosion in the wings and behind the upper bow suggests an iron hinge bar. The wings are tubular and undecorated. At the top of the bow a flat semi circular projection (hollow backed) has a groove which probably contained enamel. The bow is hollow backed, tapers slightly and has a small flange along the sides. The upper bow has a rectangular panel, slightly convex on the front, with excised triangles and lozenges some of which contain discoloured (now greenish) enamel. The bottom edge of the upstanding panel has sides angled to meet in a central point; this area has a circular pit (probably originally enamelled) in a small relief pentangle. The lower bow is convex fronted with slight centre and side facets and is undecorated; it terminates in a flat-ended moulded foot (as commonly found on Headstud types). Length 57mm, width 30mm. This brooch combines various elements of the "Lower Severn" type illustrated by Hattatt from Hull's types 103-111 (eg the unperforated chain loop of Hull 106, decoration and foot of Hull 108-9). An import from western Britain to Suffolk. | Subjects: | T shaped (Lower Severn group) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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