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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Colchester derivative/Polden Hill type. Upper part only, missing pin, very corroded. 8-turn spring. The axis bar is held at the wing ends which have a damaged pieced end plate or folded terminals; and also by a central pierced lug - whether there is a second piercing for the spring chord is not clear. The wings may have decorative grooves. The bow tapers from a broad top, D-section but slightly convex at the back. Decoration is obscured but might include a central rib and adjacent grooves. Width 33mm, surviving length 18mm. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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