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Description: | Medieval silver gilt brooch with protruding clasped hands. Length 20.91mm, diameter of ring 14.04mm, thickness at hands 3.60mm, thickness of ring 0.90mm, weight 0.54g.
British Museum Curator's Report:
A medieval, miniature brooch, triangular in section and in the form of a simple ring terminating in two joined hands. An arrangement of three grooves acts as a pin rest opposite the recess to the pin attachment. A similar arrangement of grooves is placed roughly to balance the position of the joined hands. The pin is missing.
The brooch is silver gilt and dates from the fourteenth century. A much finer example was found in mid-Norfolk in 1998, now held at Swaffham Museum, Norfolk. (See Treasure Annual Report 1998-99, p.69, no.155).
J P Robinson
Curator of Medieval Collections | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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