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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Hod Hill type. Missing pin, damaged catchplate and side knob and one fragment of hinge cover detached.Iron hinge bar and white metal surface. The upper half of the bow is broadest towards the top where there are single side knobs and has four concave mouldings separated by notched ribs. A single concave cross-moulding at the centre above a flat lower bow which continues the tapering outline to a small foot knob with single rib above. There is a line of angled punched lines down the centre of the lower bow. Length 49mm, surviving width at knobs 21mm. Similar elements to Riha nos 841, 845, 848 and to Hattatt 852
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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