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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative rear hook type. Missing spring, pin, rear hook and most of the catchplate; the margins are very corroded, especially the wings. The back of the wings has ?solder with spring impression on the right hand side. The upper bow is broad and flat backed with a slightly convex front. The decoration is largely destroyed but seems to consist of a central raised band, perhaps a group of ribs, flanked by broad concave mouldings and single ribs at the edges. The bow narrows sharply to a lower part which tapers slightly from 3mm wide and appears to have a plain convex face; in profile this lower part is straight whereas the upper half is strongly bowed. Surviving length 34mm, surviving width 15mm. Similar examples with the division between the upper and lower bow are known from south-east Suffolk - at Alderton, ADT 038, Sibton and Hacheston (publication no 76).
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