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Description: | Open frame annular brooch, probably of 14th century date. The cast frame incorporates six collets, two each end of the pin and two opposite each other midway along the frame. The collets contained blue and white glass stones, originally domed. The four colleets around the pin alternating between blue and white, and the two frame collets are white. The frame has a 'D' shaped profile and is plain, except for where it is expanded at each collet and around each end of the pin housing. The separate pin is attached through a drilled hole in the frame and two of the collets restrict the pin end. The pin is of rounded rectangular section and is simply bent around in the perforated frame.Dimensions:Maximum width - 29.7mm,External frame diameter - 24.4mm,Height of collets - 6.5mm,Width of frame - 2.2-7mm,Thickness of frame - 1.6mm
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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