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Description: | Copper alloy plated brooch, early type with white metal surface. Mising much of the margin and pin. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs. The plate is of thin metal (c.0.3mm), thickest in the band between spring lugs and catchplate. In the centre there is a rivet hole and a slightly recessed circular area (with no white metal surface) which would have held a setting (these may be of bone on this type). The plate ouline had four rounded projections, each with a small hole (but no other indication of a setting, so perhaps ornamental rather than functional); between these were pointed projections, certainly single in front of the hinge and catchplate but possibly double at the other cardinal points. Roughly incised "feather" or "leaf" motifs run into each pointed projection from the centre. Surviving diameter 26mm. The general type is more commonly found on the Continent. The most similar example located is Hattatt no 513, which differs in having fewer pointed projections and has punched dot decoration as well as the feather motifs. West Stow (1989, no.164) has a more angular version of the type. | 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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