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Description: | A circular annular brooch made of gilded silver. The frame of the brooch is quite flat in profile and is engraved with crude crosses or simple four-petalled flowers; it has a pin constriction. To one side of the frame project clasped hands, one of which is broken with about half missing. The hands are slightly cupped, suggesting that they may once have held a small gem or glass bead as others of the type are known to have done. The pin is intact and well made; it is broad at the junction of the shaft and loop, and here there is a transverse moulding. It then tapers to a point and has bevelled edges, and is reminiscent of the shape of a sword. This brooch is similar to a smaller example found in mid-Norfolk and acquired by Swaffham Museum (Treasure Act Annual Report 1998-9, no. 155), except that the Norfolk example has no room for a stone.The Hackleton brooch has been published in the Treasure Act Annual Report 2000, p. 75, no. 137.
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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