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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester or related one-piece type. Missing spring, pin; damaged wings, forward hook and catchplate; bow is extremely bent and damaged at the bend; surfaces are mostly corroded. The wings are short, flat and narrow with no surviving decoration. The bow tapers from 12.3mm wide to a blunt point; it is a flat-backed strip, up to 3.5mm thick, with a slightly convex front. Along the centre of the bow there is a recesssed band with a central narrow ?beaded rib; this band begins 8mm below the top of the bow, presumably because this area would be obscured by the forward hook. Width 22mm, projected length (unbent) around 75mm. This has similarities to the Continental brooches contemporary with the Colchester type, but those would normally have pierced catchplate and a sharp angled upper profile. The present eg is very similar to Hattatt no 1456 (from Norfolk) which he describes as Colchester type of abnormal proportions.
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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