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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Colchester derivative type. Only the wings and top of the bow survive. Although from the front this appears a fairly normal hinged type with moulded wings the greater part of each wing is solid with a flat facet at the back. In the centre back there is a 5mm deep slot where the top of the pin would swivel; to each side there is an opening 2.5 to 3mm wide and up to 3mm deep, which should form part of the housing for the hinge bar. This looks like an incomplete piece, but raises questions about the way this type was made? The mouldings on the front consist of horizontally hatched beads flanking a broad concave moulding. The bow is flat backed with a high rounded front. A narrow centre band defined by single grooves on the top meets a transverse band of at least three narrow hatched ribs with deep intervening grooves. Damage on the top of the wings might be recent but could also be a result of blows for breaking as scrap metal? Width 32.5mm, surviving length 14mm, diameter of solid wing terminals 6mm.
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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