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Description: | Hexagonal quasi-annular brooch with raised ornament at each angle consisting of small raised circular cells containing white chalky paste, perhaps formerly enamel. The frame of this mediaeval brooch is 3mm wide and 2.5mm thick, and its diameter is 33mm from one straight face to that opposite, and 33mm from one angle to the opposite angle. The pin, which is slightly incomplete but still attached, is 2.5mm thick (depth) but only 2mm broad, so ovate in section, with a squared and ridged shoulder and an elongated loop 6mm long but 3.5 thick and merely 1.2mm wide. In this narrow dimension it is inset into a neatly cut waisting in the centre of one of the sides. The upper surface of the bars forming the sides is domed in section, and each of the cells is neatl shaped and raised up at the corners with a hollowed centre containing a chalky substance. The outer side of the frame is scored all round with a deep groove. The raised cells are approximately 4mm across and the hollowed centres are 2mm in diameter. This is a good example of a characteristic mid-late mediaeval brooch. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plunkett, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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