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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, P-shape with backward returned foot. Complete except for part of the pin. The pin with ?three turn spring is of iron with a chord passing behind the bow. The croosarm is an iron rod with a 4mm wide copper alloy strip around each end forming small knobs; the rest has fine copper alloy wire wrapped around the rod up to the iron spring which it loops behind to reach the other half of the crossarm. The bow is a flat copper alloy strip; the upper part is 4mm wide and bent over the crossarm (between the iron spring coils) and extends 18mm down behind the back of the bow. At the front the bow broadens to 17mm at the top from where it tapers slightly. On the back of the upper bow there is a punched double ring and dot near the top, concealed by the folded over strip of the bow, and another indistinct (corroded) punched ring and dot below the folded strip. The front is decorated with outline double rows of punched tiny triangles; transverse rows of these top and bottom defines bands with three and two punched dot and double rings respectively. The long centre panel contains punched dot and double rings alternating with S\S motifs. There are further punched dot and double rings (two sizes) and transverse punched triangle lines on the flat area of the foot. The foot is bent under and bent to a U-shape as a catchplate> At the end of this catchplate return a piece of copper alloy wire is held in a hole and bent 3 times around the lower bow / foot bend; this would have prevented the pin forcing the catchplate strip apart from the bow. This is similar in construction to a silver example in Hattatt (no.1247) from "Central Europe" - he describes the group as "Gothic" from eastern Europe / south Russia and extending to Germany/Scandinavia. The seller's attribution to "Balkans" may well be correct. | Subjects: | P shape | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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