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Description: | Small cast copper alloy annular brooch with looped and broken copper alloy pin. This brooch probably dates from the late medieval, early post-medieval period The brooch is 20mm in diameter and is 2.5mm thick. It weighs 1.65 grams. The brooch is circular in plan and sub-rectangular (rectangular with rounded corners) in section. There is a small constriction on the body of the frame where the pin is attached. This constriction is undecorated. The frame of the brooch is decorated with a cast pattern. This pattern is in the form of twisted cabling. The entire object would have orginally been gilt, however, only small amounts of this still adhear to the surface. The attached pin is 14mm long, 2mm wide and 0.25mm thick. It is rectangular in section and has been broken approximately two thirds along its length. This break is releatively old due to the patination of the surrounding metal. The pin is formed from a thin copper alloy sheet that has been bent around a small undecorated constriction on the frame of the brooch. The pin itself has one single bar decorative feature. This is situated where the pin meets the frame of the brooch. Again, the pin was originally gilt, only small amounts now remain attached to the surface. A comparible example is recorded in G. Egan and F. Pritchard, 1991: Dress Accessories c1150-1450 p252-253. Catalogue Number 1325.
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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