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Description: | Medieval brooch; cast copper alloy annular brooch of 14th century date with inscription. The brooch is a flat ring which narrows in one small section for form a pin bar. The pin is missing. The brooch is decorated on one face with large, individual letters, separated by areas of little wavy lines. The lines are mostly vertical but in some places are diagonal or horizontal. The lettering seems to be ??X H O V E R T L M??, although the H and the L are unclear. This seems to be nonsensical (based on the current reading of the letters) although they may be initials for a phrase which was well-known to the owner but has now lost its connotations.
Diameter 27.6mm, width of band 4.6mm, thickness 2.3mm, weight 3.61g
Ref: Compare the silver brooch in Egan and Pritchard ??Dress Accessories: Medieval finds from excavations in London?? (pp. 254-255, no. 1337)
Inscription: X H O V E R T L M | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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