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Description: | Crescent shaped plate brooch of early type. Missing most of pin and all settings. The pin is hinged on two close set lugs. The crescent outline is elaborated with circular terminals and three small projections around the ouside plus an internal projection with bi-lobed terminal. the terminals have slight circular recesses and small rivets in place; a similar larger circular setting in the centre has also lost the rivet. The remainder of the face is decorated with punched dot lines: outlling the shapes plus a central dot in each of the small projections and a line in each arm of the crescent ending in a coil. Larger dots at the ends of lines are part of the design but a few are unclear because of corrosion. 35 x 33mm, plate is just under 2mm thick. Very slight possible traces of white metal on surface at terminals. The type is found on the Continent and here but examples checked (Hattatt, Hawkes and Hull 1947, Riha 1979) are less elaborate in outline, specifically lacking the terminal settings.
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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