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Description: | Large annular brooch, medieval in date and made from copper alloy. The frame is basically circular, 50 mm in diameter, but is interrupted by a projecting grooved pin rest and a pin constriction. In cross-section the frame is oval, 5.5 x 4 mm; corrosion has removed all of the surface and no decoration survives. A copper-alloy pin survives on the pin constriction. This is of the same colour metal as the frame, and is also badly corroded. The loop is open and wrapped around the frame; a little way down the shaft, the upper face of the pin has a moulded animal head with short upright ears, a concave muzzle and an open mouth through which the shaft emerges. As this is an unusual variant of a medieval annular brooch, its date is uncertain. Large annular brooches are generally 14th century, but they do not have pin constrictions and projecting pin rests. The form of the animal head is not much help, as this type is found both on 12th-century Romanesque objects (e.g. Biddle 1990, no. 2283A, from Winchester) and on 15th-century objects (e.g. vessel spouts). | Subjects: | annular | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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