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Description: | Copper alloy and gilt brooch. Oval plate brooch with a dark glass centre boss. Copper alloy with a gilt surface at the front and tinned at the back. The oval frame has a slight lip or flange around the oval boss. The boss is drawn to a point at it's centre which projects up from the framing plate The glass is black, ovoid and conical. The back of the plate is flat with a tinned surface. Dividing it lengthways are a fixing point for a sprung pin which is missing, and a catchplate. There is some decoration on the front of the plate around the surface of the outer edge. This consists of a series of impressed saltires forming a border. | Subjects: | plate Glass centre-boss | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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