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Description: | Cast copper alloy enamelled headstud brooch in remarkable condition. The brooch has narrow flat rectangular wing faces with a cylindrical compartment for an axis bar on the reverse. Part of the copper alloy axis bar is present however the pin is missing. Each wing face is decorated with a terminal groove filled with enamel, and a rectangular cell containing two copper alloy pellets set vertically. The area around the pellets within this cell is filled with enamel. There is a moulded crest at the top of the bow, with a headstud below. The headstud comprises two concentric circles, the outer band of which is filled with enamel, and the inner with a blue enamel. The bow is comma shaped when seen from the side, and tapers ever so slightly to an elaborately reeled foot. The face of the bow is decorated with a long rectangular cell containing a row of lozenge shaped cells. The area within and outside each cell is filled with enamel. There is also a deep perimeter groove either side of the rectagnular cell which also contains enamel. The catchplate on the reverse is complete. There is slight evidence of silvering or tinning on the copper alloy surface. All of the enamel is now a degraded yellow-brown colour apart from the blue headstud. | Subjects: | Headstud | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daubney, Adam - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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