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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative type with Polden Hill variant attachment system. Missing part of spring and pin; damaged fott and catchplate. Traces of white metal on the front of both wings and bow. The wings have 5mm flaps folded around to hold the axis bar at the back. The front has a single broad concave moulding bounded by single grooves at each terminal. The bow is flat backed, very slightly tapered, and has a pair of narrow grooves bounded by broader single concave mouldings. A transverse foot moulding is largely missing. Width 29mm, surviving length 39mm. Type as Scole (Rogerson 1977) no. 1 and other Suffolk examples include Wenhaston (WMH 005), Pettistree, Coddenham (Ips Mus 954-66-8) and Barham (BRH 016 no.437).
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