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Description: | The brooch is made from cast copper alloy. In plan it is an annular sub-oval shape, with one edge being slightly pointed. From the tip of this point to the opposite iuter edge the brooch is 23.5mm long, and is 19.8mm wide.
The upper surface of the brooch has six evenly spaced high-relief circular cells. Each filled or incompletely filled with an off-white coloured paste. The upper edges of the cells are abraded. Presumably originally these cells would have held something like the glass pellets as in the Norwich example.
The exterior side of the frame are obliquely angled. The reverse of the frame is undecorated and is also obliquely angled from the upper interior edge down to teh exterior edge.
Between two cells there is a small circular hole, which would have originally been for the pin. The pin is now missing.
The brooch has a polished mid grey/green coloured patina.
The Norwich example (No. 58 in Margeson) dates to the late 13th - 14th centuries. | Subjects: | Annular | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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