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Description: | Copper alloy brooch in the form of a sitting chicken. Missing pin; damaged hinge lug, catchplate and tail. The pin was hinged on two close set lugs. The head has ring and dot eyes, with no surviving inlay; and a cell below representing the wattle containing traces of ?red enamel. The body has a design of enamel cells symetrical around the centre line; an outer band has mainly blue "feather" shapes against ?red (mainly missing) The centre area has orange and blue arcs against an uncertain, largely missing background (a small spot might be red). Below the tail is a pierced lug (chain loop). Surviving length 37mm, body height 22mm. Form as Hattatt no 167, 620; enamel pattern less standard?
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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