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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, fantail form with rear hook spring attachment and with duck shaped bow. Missing spring, pin, damaged catchplate; areas of corrosion. Traces of white metal survivie on the front, particularly on the fantail. Corrosion on the back of the wings suggests there may have been solder at both ends. The wing fronts are strongly moulded. The upper bow is shaped as the body of a duck, with the head and beak projecting above and beyond the top. The tail tapers onto the top of the flat fantail foot. Width 25mm, length 39.5mm. The style of the wings and the rear hook attachment suggest an East Anglian origin during the 1st century but nothing similar to the duck body has been located.
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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