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Description: | A wrought and cast copper alloy brooch of the hod hill type, only about 75% complete, the head is curled over, and one of the short wings is broken with the reverse of the curl the only part extant. There is a white metal coating on a very small area of the remaining wing. The wings are a flattened oval shape in section, the bow is curved in profile at and angle of approximately 180%, and is quite narrow, having cross-ribs that are sharply defined at their upper edges resembling a pinched pie crust. The bow has a central flat rectangular transverse panel, bordered by a raised moulding which has incised decoration and resembles 'rope work', the panel extends when the brooch is viewed in plan outside of the rest of the bow, and there are unfinished edges suggesting that the panel ended in side knobs (now missing). Two of the cross-ribs are above the panel and two below The bow tapers slightly and has been broken off at the junction with the foot, which is missing. On the reverse, a small part of the upper end of the catchplate is extant, and runs from the reverse of the central panel towards the missing foot. There is a central pin slot in the head with iron accretion suggesting that the missing pin may have been made of iron.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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