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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Langton Down type. Upper half only, missing the pin. It is very corroded, especially on the spring cover. The bow is twisted above the break which is relatively recent. The bow joins the spring cover with a straight horizontal edge. No decoration survives on the spring cover. The bow is flat and tapering and the decoration consists of three bands of three narrow ribs separated by broader slightly concave bands. Width 16mm, surviving length 21mm. Type as King Harry Lane (Stead & Rigby 1989) type Ee or tapering variant Ef no 28. | Subjects: | Langton Down | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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