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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Aesica crescent type. Upper half only, missing spring, pin; some surface damage, incomplete rear hook.The wings have broad concave mouldings flanked by single grooves. The front bow loop is rectangular in section, expanding to damaged side knobs at the bottom and then narrowing and thickening towards the junction with the back part. It has single narrow grooves along the edges. The back section of the bow is a circular plate, flat backed and slightly convex fronted, c. 3mm thick, which is joined to the lower part of the wings and to the front bow at its centre. The lower part of the disc has a single hole, diam 2.4mm, at the edge of the break. This was probably for te attachment of a crescent shaped piece to the bow, but this is completely missing. Surviving length 25mm, width 23mm. Type as Hattatt 1481 etc but with wing mouldings, simpler front bow and thicker back disc than those egs. | Subjects: | Aesica crescent | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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