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Description: | Copper alloy small disc brooch. Missing pin and catchplate. Pin was hinged between 2 close set lugs. Concentric circle decoration: central copper alloy dot, narrow band of discoloured enamel (now pale brown) bounded by copper alloy ring; the outer band has blue enamel background and eight copper alloy rings with central ?enamel dots. Diameter 15.5mm. The missing catchplate area probably had a forward projection and the type is described as "disc-and-beak" by Hattatt - nos. 1078-1079. Like this example his 1078 has no centre knob and no rivet for one, but the type usually a centre knob as 1079 and an e.g. in Moyses Hall Museum (1981-56)
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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