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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Knee brooch variant. Upper half only, missing the pin. The spring is held in a cylindical cover with circular ends pierced for the axis bar and with an open back. The spring is visible as about six copper alloy turns, but the surrounding corrosion suggests an iron axis bar. The bow is parallel sided, flat backed and with facets on the front. In profile it is strongly curved, with projections above and below at the top and at the mid point. There are traces of white metal coating on the front surfaces. Width 20mm, surviving length 20mm. Because of the break it is not certain whether this is Snape (BAR 1993) type 5.3 or the less common fully S-shaped Hattatt no. 1668; all the surviving detail is however extremely similar to Hatttatt no 1668, from Norfolk. There is also a comparable fragment from Otley, Suffolk, SF-3FC853.
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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