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Description: | Copper alloy plate brooch fragment, probably originally circular. Only a fragment of the plate, including the centre of the circle and a damaged area of circumference with an abraded catchplate behind survive. The back is flat. Traces of white metal on the front of the plate. In the centre a 3mm diam rivet hole is blocked with copper alloy; around this a 10mm diam area is convex and bounded by two rings of punched dots and a groove. The outer ring is a 6mm wide band, thiockened towards its middle, with traces punched curving lines angled across both sides and with flattened areas (parts of two survive) for 6mm diam circular settings, now lost, with central rivet holes now filled with copper alloy. The outer edge of the plate is very abraded but there is an outer ring of punched dots. The original diameter (if this was a full circle) would have been around 33mm. Although all the elements can be compared to early plate brooches no close parallels were found in Hattatt, Riha or other Suffolk material. | Subjects: | early | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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