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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, flat enamelled disc type. Complete except for slight damage to the catchplate fold; some concretion/corrosion. The pin is sprung on a single lug. A central recessed area 2.5mm across is empty and bounded by a 1.3mm wide band of copper alloy. The concentric enamelled areas are separated by a zigzag copper alloy line (0.4mm wide) forming a 10-pointed star with a single copper alloy dot within each point. The inner area enamel is white, the outer area black. Diameter 20mm, plate 1mm thick. As Hattatt 1035, where he notes that thes all have sprung pins (his example looks like 2 lugs) and are probably British. Others are recorded from Suffolk from Wixoe (WIX 003) and Burgh (BUG 019). | Subjects: | flat enamelled disc | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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