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Description: | Enamelled copper alloy disc brooch. Missing pin, damaged hinge lugs, very abraded around the margin; cracked at one edge and probably squashed in the centre. The pin was hinged between two close-set lugs, just below the stubs of a probable headloop; the catchplate is behind a projecting knob. The main area is slightly domed (probably originally more so) and concave behind. A central dot has no surviving enamel; a surrounding 8-pointed star has spots of blue enamel in four of the triangles making up the points (alternating with plain metal); the background eight triangles contain red enamel. An outer ring is also based on eight triangles; those pointing outward have semicircular blue enamel cells in the base, and the outer background triangles are also filled with red enamel. The whole is bounded by a deep groove, most of which has been lost. Surviving length including damaged headloop and footknob is 35mm, diameter of the plate with outer groove is 26mm. Some of the most similar arrangements of the design (8-point based) are on brooches with an additional band of enamelled triangles (as Hattatt no. 536) but this example could only have a narrow metal band and more projections (as Hattatt no 1574 etc or no 128). | Subjects: | Disc "umbonate" (Hattatt) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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