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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative type. Missing spring, pin and attachment system; damaged foot and catchplate. Flat narrow wings with angled and incised single lines at terminal and diagonally. The stub of a possible hook at top might suggest a rear hook for spring attachment even though this would be very inefficient with flat wings; although corroded however there is no trace of a double pierced lug. The tapered bow is triangular in section plus side flanges. A narrow rib flanked by single grooves along the centre of the bow has traces of transverse hatching at the top.The catchplate does not have a pin groove and was probably not pierced. Surviving length 38mm, width 21mm. The brooch is similar to a West Stow example (no.154 in West 1990) in the wing and bow shape (the West Stow example has a recessed centre decoration instead of a rib) and that example is a double lug type. The bow form is also found in rear hook types such as one from South Elmham St Cross, Suffolk and probably another West Stow example (no.158) though the latter is again missing much of the hook and both have curved wings. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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