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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, early lozenge shaped type. Missing one end including the catchplate, side knobs and pin; very corroded / abraded surfaces; flattened. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs behind the terminal transverse mouldings. The plate expands from here (and originally curved up in profile) to a central flat rectangular area with notching along the edges and three recessed circular areas with deeper centre dots (now holes). Traces of punched dot lines on the incomplete curved area towards the catchplate. Surviving length 22mm, surviving maximum width 17.5mm. As Riha 1979 Typ 7.16 no. 1640.
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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