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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Colcherster derivative hinged type. Upper bow only, missing pin and almost all the wings; some abrasion. The bow is flat backed with short vertical sides and tapers slightly. The front of the bow has a broad central recessed area in which two reserved ribs are incompletely notched to give a zigzag effect; flanking this are single broad concave mouldings. The surviving area of the head has a complete cylinder to enclose the hinge bar to the right of the pin slot, but open or broken to the left with traces of ?chisel marks. The complete cylinder area is blocked by a solid ?clay-like deposit. This might suggest the piece is unfinished, as might the incomplete decoration on the bow centre panel, but neither is certain. However the chisel marks on the back and the breaking of both wings very close to the bow do suggest that this has been deliberately broken up, presumably for re-use of the metal. The bow decoration scheme is unusual on the hinged Colchester derivatives, one similar is Hattatt no. 891 though it lacks the flanking grooves. Surviving width 13mm, surviving length 26mm.
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