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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, enamelled ?sickle shaped flat type. Missing spring, pin, damaged catchplate, spring lugs and margins; most enamel gone; bent. The pin was sprung between two lugs 5mm apart; the lugs are placed at the edges of the plate behind the flat end. The plate outline is a crescent with one end broader and squared off and with a flattened area and angular projection on the outer edge. The face is very abraded but seems to have had two or probably three enamelled cells: at the flat end a triangular cell (apex on the inside of the curve) which contains a fragment of blue enamel; above this a crescent containing an area of the same blue enamel at the top; there is probably another crescent above this and into the pointed end of the plate. Surviving length (taken from flat end) 21mm, plate 1.5mm thick. This type of brooch often depicts animals or objects, but apart from a vaguely fish-like appearance this one is unclear and no comparitive eg could be found in Hattatt or Riha 1979. | Subjects: | enamelled plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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