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Description: | A cast copper alloy Medieval annular brooch. The brooch is sub-circular in plan and in profile does not quite lie flat. These features were probably not intentional, but due to more recent damage. The frame of the brooch is oval in section, and one half appears to be narrower than the other. The narrower half may have lost some of its original surface, but this is not certain. The wider half has feint moulded cabling visible, forming a slightly twist to the texture of the surface. A small portion of the frame is a narrowed constriction for the pin. The pin is missing. The surface of the brooch is abraded. The brooch measures 20.19mm long, 17.69mm wide and 1.45mm thick. It weighs 0.66g.
The narrowed constriction suggests the object is a brooch rather than a buckle. The cable decoration is found on similar brooches in Egan (Egan G. and Pritchard F. 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press), particularly No. 1310 which is also made from cast copper alloy, but has the cable moulding on only half of the frame, which dates to the 13th century, c. 1230 to c. 1260. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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