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Description: | One of two joining fragments of copper alloy brooch of unusual P-shaped type brooch - the second recorded as SF-F8F4F5. This piece is the lower half of the bow and the foot. The two pieces form the bow and foot, missing axis bar and spring, pin and catchplate, with damage to the foot and patches of severe corrosion on the bow. The axis bar was iron, traces remain in a loop formed by bending over the top of the bow. The bow is rectangular in section, 6 x 2.2mm, and strongly arched in profile. At the top transverse grooves define a very corroded rectanglular area; the lower groove is notched. Below this there is a row of three small dot and ring motifs, and similar punched dot and rings continue along the centre of the bow, though the shallower rings are largely worn away. The edge of the bow is facetted from below the top row of dot and circles to near the base of the bow arch where the motifs repeat, ie a row of three dot and ring motifs, then transverse grooves with notching, here defining a square area containing one firther dot and ring. At the angle the bow edges have small single notches. The foot continues the same rectangualr section strip, possibly narrowing slightly, and is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves and another single groove at the break; between the two groups of grooves there are small side facets. The catchplate has broken off the back of the foot, but an indistinct scar remains along the right hand edge. This type of P-shaped brooch is more commonly found on the Continent - it is illustrated by Hattatt as numbers 1243 and 1245 but both of those have a returned foot type of catchplate. An example from a grave in Ardleigh, Essex ((H.Major in N.Brown, The Archaeology of Arrdleigh, Essex, E Anglian Archaeol 90, 1999, pp67-69) is fairly similar to the present example but with less decoration, and a very similar bow (lacking only the punched dot and ring motifs) and foot with surviving solid catchplate is in Ipswich Museum (1981-58, no location?). The Ardleigh graves have several objects potentially relating to eastern Europe. | Subjects: | P shaped variant | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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