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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative / Polden Hill variant type. Missing pin, corroded areas. The eight turn spring is held by a rear hook on the chord, plus the axis bar is enclosed by 9mm of the wings folded around at each end. The wings have a deep 2mm wide circular setting at each end, now empty, with three vertical grooves and one angled in the gap up to the bow junction. The bow has a angled top at the wing junction, and parallel grooves form the top of the lozenge-shaped outline around another deep circular setting (2.5mm across), again empty. Below ths the flat bow sides meet at the centre angle which has a beaded centre rib defined by single grooves; further single grooves define the tapering edges. The back of the bow is slightly convex. A small projecting foot has a flat end and traces of a single transverse groove. Length 29mm, width 31.5mm. An unusual version of the Polden Hill variant, which is almost certainly East Anglian; the most similar eg identified is one with more plastic decoration but similarsettings and proportions from Great Livermere.
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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