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Description: | A gilt annular brooch, with a distorted frame, engraved rocker-arm ornament around the upper face, with a pair of opposed projections, one broken, the other with an animal-head terminal, bent inward to form a hook. A pair of opposed notches on the reverse set at right-angles to the projections, and a pin set in a constriction next to one of the projections. The pin is in a bright green patinated alloy and is of tapering D-section with two transverse grooves near the loop. Measures 42mm x 17.5mm. This brooch is closely comparable to a mount from London (F. Pritchard in Vince (ed.) Aspects of Saxo-Norman London: II (1991) 151-2, fig.3.34 no.107), and to other mounts from Norfolk, Barton Bendish (HER 19086), Beeston with Bittering (HER 4084), Coltishall (HER 28860), Ingham (HER 50272), Outwell (HER 41077), Stow Bardolph (HER 51164), Wiveton (HER 25862) and Wymondham (HER 37333). All of these, dated 11th -12th century, have been without pin constrictions or pins. A 12th or 13th century date is more likely for this brooch. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Crawford, Becky | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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