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Description: | A medieval, silver, annular brooch. The ring of the brooch is decorated at four equidistant points with punched and grooved ornament. Two are arranged as a pair of smaller tapering bands and two as three tapering bands. There is a flattened area with groove that acts as a pin rest. The ring is broken adjacent to the constriction that supports the loop of the pin. The circular collar of the pin is decorated with a circumscribing groove and ridges.
For a similar examples see Treasure Annual Report 2000, no 118, Wolverton, Warwickshire, and J D A Thompson, Inventory of British Coin Hoards (London, 1956), no. 103, pl. X. | Subjects: | Annular brooch | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Herepath, Nick - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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