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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, large Colchester derivative type with double pierced lug and concave mouldings along bow. Missing most of spring and pin; very bent. Undecorated wings. Below the centre rib on the upper bow two slight grooves extend along the centre and notching gives a slight beaded effect on either side; the centre is flanked by single broad concave mouldings/flutes, with a slight incised marginal line. The catchplate has a large triangular hole and a pin groove. Width 30mm, surviving length 48mm (unbent would be around 60mm). Type as Skeleton Green (Partridge 1981) Fig 69 no.25 (=29 in text); also eg from Wherstead, Suffolk (Gill et al 2001, no.4) - suggested to be an early version of this type.
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