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Description: | A phallic brooch, cast in one piece; when viewed holding the catchplate downwards and away from the observer, the top front of the object is a slightly raised half oval area the rounded end topmost with an integrally cast sub-circular side knop each side representing the testes. The half oval area has 5 rows of incised alternating upward and downward facing crescents which probably represent public hair. Below this there is a sub-rectangular panel the long sides of which taper gently, this has 7 deep transverse rectangular cells which house the remains of an uncertain infill; at the end facing downwards the brooch expands to form a large egg shaped cell - the more pointed end of the cell downwards, this cell also contains the remains of an unidentified fill. The reverse of the half-oval area extends into a double pin bar lug in which the copper-alloy pin bar and a very short piece of the pin can be seen, the rest of the pin is missing. The catchplate extends from the reverse of the lowest rectangular transverse cell right to the bottom of the brooch as has a very shallow left curl on which 4 small grooves can be seen.
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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