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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, probably a Polden Hill type. Missing pin, damaged spring, wing ends and catchplate. About 10 turns in the spring, which was held by a pierced lug for the chord (now missing) and pierced end plates (now largely missing) for the axis bar. The wings have double grooves at the terminals and forming angled lines; in both the area between the grooves is beaded. The bow is circular in section and tapers to a broken point. There is a trace of two rows of punched dots along the centre near the foot but no decoration survives elswhere on the bow. In profile the upper bow is slightly humped. Width 27.5mm, surviving length 44mm.
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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