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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled domed disc brooch . Missing pin, headloop and most of the outer margin, damaged catchplate. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs; an iron hinge bar survives and possibly the stub of an iron pin. At the centre a dot and circle are very worn, with no surviving trace of enamel. An inner ring of ten triangles contain red enamel and the outer ring of tweve contains blue. The junction with a flat margin is marked by a deep groove (and most of the margin has broken off from here). Above the hinge there is a trace of the stubs of a headloop but no other projections survive; the surviving areas of margin are undecorated with traces of a possible white metal coating. Surviving diameter 29mm, domed plate 7mm thick. Although the damage makes this look like the common enamelled domed type, as Hattatt no 128 etc the flat margin is more likely to be the type with projecting lugs, Hattatt no.1574, with the proportions close to an example from Hacheston, Suffolk (pubn no. 182).
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