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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, ? Colchester derivative or Polden Hill variant type, large. Missing pin, most of catchplate, foot; heavy corrosion around spring and badly pitted areas throughout. There is an iron axis bar (very degraded). The ends of the wings are cylindrical, containing the axis bar, with an open area in the centre of the back which houses the spring - this is all very corroded and only 4 coils of the spring are visible; it is possible but far from certain that there was a hook to hold the chord (which is missing) also. The gap containing the spring is probably only 12 mm wide. The front of the wings have moulded decoration; from the middle: groove, concave, pair of notched ribs with grooves, concave, ?2 ribs and grooves. The bow is D-sectioned with a slightly convex back; at the back there is an inverted V shape bow/wings junction line. On the upper bow there are angled grooves at the junction with the wings and below, and a slight centre rib is bounded by single grooves. These become paired grooves with a notched rib between and a plain centre band on the mid to lower bow. The stub of a catchplate survives 15mm long, showing that the break is not very far above the end of the bow. Width 54mm, surviving length 49mm. This brooch is not very like the normal East Anglian Polden Hill variants and is unusually large.
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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