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Description: | Copper-alloy small-long brooch missing the terminal to its foot but otherwise complete. The headplate is sub-circular, slightly wider than it is long, and is now bent on one side. It has two lines of double-crescent stamps running down the centre of the headplate, and traces of a border of annulet stamps which originally ran around the edge of the headplate. On the reverse is a pin bar lug whose perforation has worn through; there is a little iron staining around it. The bow has a flat panel at top and bottom, each decorated with two transverse grooves. In between the bow is facetted with a hollow reverse; the inner transverse grooves are joined to two longitudinal grooves which run the length of the bow. Between these longitudinal grooves is a row of annulet stamps, but both grooves and stamps are worn away in the centre. The foot has a flat panel divided in half by a pair of transverse grooves. Above is a transverse row of annulet stamps, and just a hint of a pair of U-shaped notches. Below, the edges are bevelled. Then come two transverse mouldings which seem blurred - perhaps worn, perhaps slightly melted? These are just above a break which is neither very fresh nor very worn. On the reverse is a catchplate which has some pale ?iron corrosion in its fold. It too has a slightly collapsed look as if it has been very slightly melted. Length 50 mm, original width of headplate in unbent condition c. 20 mm.
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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