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Description: | Incomplete Medieval copper alloy annular brooch with eight collets, all filled with white enamel. It is missing the majority of the pin.
The brooch is 31.4mm in diameter (internal 19mm) and stands 4-5mm high, from the underside to the top of the collets.
The collets are 4-5mm in diameter. None have lost their enamel fill.
Interspaced with the collets is a projection, extending c.1.5mm from the outside edge of the collet. It has a deep groove either side to form a triangle, narrowing to the inside edge where a c.1mm diameter hole lies. All these holes are empty except one which has a tiny amount of clear ?glass inside. Presumably the hole opposite the pin would have been empty and acted as a rest. The inside edge of the projections is in line with the collets. One projection has a central piercing, for the pin.
The pin, which is a thin wire, survives only where it curls through the hole on the triangle between two collets, and for 4mm after that.
Weighs 5.09.
14th century in date. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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