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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, "Sawfish" type. Complete except for pin and damage to catch-plate and centre crest. Rounded arms enclosing copper alloy hinge bar, with single terminal grooves. Flat backed bow with convex front, parallel sides until foot area. Narrow crest with hole at top, missing zoomorphic lower half. Single groove along bow edges, 6 small projections each side, central panel of excised triangles and lozenges probably originally contained enamel. Circular forward projecting foot with flat end. Surviving length36mm, width 22mm. Type as Hattatt nos. 936-938 etc but merging elements of his two groups of Sawfish examples. Uncommon in Suffolk - one HCH 001 example, pubn. no. 153 | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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BROOCH
An incomplete copper-alloy sawfish brooch…
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