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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, sitting chicken type. Missing pin, damaged head and tail. The pin was hinged on two close set lugs. The hollow below the bird is filled with grey-pink fired clay, presumably from the casting mould; the clay is fairly fine-grained with visible sand and mica inclusions. The body has enamel surviving in only two cells, blue in the wing feathers. The tail has the remains of a small chain loop at the base. The head has traces of a punched dot and circle eye on each side. Surviving length 31mm, height 25mm. Type as Hattatt no.167; a very similar and better preserved eg from Charsfield Suffolk (CHA 011).
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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