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Description: | Head and upper bow of a copper alloy Polden Hill brooch. The spring mechanism is of developed Polden Hill type with pierced disc terminals to the side-wings to support the axial bar of the spring and the chord secured above the spring by a cast crest in the centre of the head. The bow is a flat D-shape in section, and is flanked by two slight appendages, delineated by a groove, which appear to terminate slightly above the break. A ridge runs from the crest down the centre of the bow. The side-wings are decorated by vertical grooving forming narrow notched ridges flanked by broader plain panels. Fourteen coil spring, pin itself now missing. Cf. Usk (Webster 1995, 75 no.31) for brooch of similar type.
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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