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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, ?headstud / Polden Hill variant. Missing pin; areas of damage on bow and catchplate; enamel largely lost. The spring has 12 turns; it is held on an axis bar which fitted into holes in circular endplates on the otherwise semicylindrical wings. The spring chord passes through a hole in the end of a 12mm long crest/rib on the top of the bow centre; this crest also has two notches. The wings have a single terminal groove and a pair of angled grooves. The bow is rectangular in section, meeting the top edge of the wings and tapering to a moulded foot. Eight square cells along the front were enamelled, but no original colour survives except a hint of red and a probability that two colours alternated. The foot projects slightly forward; it has a flat end and ?three ribs and grooves, expanding towards the end. The catchplate is set on the left hand (viewed from back) side of the bow at an angle so that the turn was central. Length 53mm, width 24mm. This brooch is British but probably not East Anglian - the typical Polden Hill form of spring attachment as here is commoner in the west, whereas the headstud (which the bow form and decoration strongly resembles) seems to develop in northern Britain.
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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