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Description: | A copper alloy headstud brooch. The square section bow has two longitudinal deep grooves. The bow is separated from the foot by a horizontal beaded moulding. The moulding is faintly incised with diagonal lines. The foot is forward facing, stepped and hollow. The wings are solid and curved. They are decorated with circular and leaf shaped cells, in addition to knurled ribs. The cells are filled with blue enamel. Where the bow meets the wings, there is an applied headstud. This consists of a shallow circular plate with a marginal flange. Resting on this plate is a doughnut shaped ring of glass. Although degraded and discoloured the ring appears to have been red originally. The ring is held in place with a flat circular headed tack which pierces the bow. Behind the headstud is a sub rectangular crest, which is purely decorative in function. The brooch possesses a swivelling wire chain loop held in place by a rectangular plate. This plate is decorated with two leaf shaped cells filled with blue enamel. The chain loop has one circular chain link. On the reverse, the pin is hinged; the catchplate is sub triangular and runs the full length of the bow. The catchplate has been repaired using a sheet of copper alloy. This sheet has been riveted to the original catchplate in two places. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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