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Description: | A cast copper-alloy lozenge-shaped brooch, decorated around the outer edge with a row of punched circles. The circles have been infilled with some sort of white paste. The inner edge is bevelled, and has seven circular indentations, one at each of three corners and one in the middle of each side; these too have the remains of a white paste inside. It is unclear if the white paste is meant to be a decorative feature in its own right, or whether it simply acted as cement holding small precious stones or gems in place. The last corner has a circular notch rather than an indentation, and this may have formed the pin constriction. The pin is missing. The reverse is undecorated. The metal is a mid green-brown colour and the brooch is slightly worn. There is a close parallel to this brooch from a 14th-century context in Winchester (Biddle 1990, no. 2028).
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