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Description: | Incomplete Medieval silver gilt annular brooch with collets or 'turrets', one of which has an in situ gemstone of ?garnet. The brooch is in five pieces, including the pin.
The brooch consists of five high collets or turrets and would have had at least one more. On the larger surviving pieces, the collets are alternated by a brambled boss of which we have four surviving (five including the pin). These are joined by a sheet silver frame 2.7mm wide and 0.9mm thick.
The collets that do not contain the gemstone would have done originally and the white fixing material is visible in each. One turret, which is not joined to anything, is rather sqaushed and missing its base, shows this material runs throughout.
From each brambled boss an arm extends at a 45?? angle to the collet on either side, terminating in three tri-lobes, the central one of which touches the collect while the other two surround the collet, so that with an arm on either side four tri-lobes encircle the collet with one each on the two arms.
The brambled bosses are oval in shape and measure c.9x5x4mm. The collets are oval in section and rise in a triangular shape, narrowing from the base (c.12x7mm) to c.6x4mm at the top, over a height of c.12mm. They may have originally been punched to stimulate granulation. The undersides are flat.
The pin is D-shaped in section and wraps around the frame through the centre of a brambled boss. The shaft is slighty bent but measures 44.3mm. At the end by the frame (4.2mm) is a transverse moulding with a central groove. The pin narrows to a rounded point 2.1mm wide. From one outside edge of the brambled boss extends the frame and an arm.
The overall complexion of the frame suggests that it may have been burnt. Consequently the decorative detail is difficult to discern.
It is not clear in exactly which order the brooch fits together, but it is likely it would have been c.50-60mm in diameter originally.
Cf a similar but finer example in gold, in the 2001 Treasure Annual Report from Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (page 56 mo.86). This is dated to the 13th/ 14th century.
Weighs 14.74g.
James Robinson dates this to the late thirteenth/ early fourteenth century. | 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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