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Description: | Copper-alloy brooch, enamelled disc type. Missing pin and headloop, damaged pin bar lugs and catchplate. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs and the stub of a small headloop survives in front of the lugs. The catchplate has a forward projection which Hattatt describes as a beak. The disc is slightly convex on both faces and up to 3mm thick. A central hole contains the remains of a rivet which would have held a projecting boss (now missing). The main area of the disc contains blue enamel with a ring of eight copper alloy dots - corrosion on these and the outer and inner rings is probably caused by originally having applied silver. Diameter of disc 15 mm. Type as Hattatt 1078-1079, which he identifies as part of a very small group (5 examples), possibly an eastern England workshop. There is also an example in Moyses Hall Museum (1981-56). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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