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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Aesica variant, crescent type. Missing spring, pin, rear hook; damaged wings, bow projections, foot, catchplate; the crescent has become detached; extensive surface corrosion. No decoration survives on the wings. The humped upper bow has broad concave mouldings flanking a central raised strip. The crescent has lost all ssurface decoration except for a trace of two grooves at the edge; it is attached by a small (2 x 1.5mm) integral rectangular rivet at the centre. The flat fantail has traces of paired grooves radiating from beneath the crescent. Surviving width 14mm, surviving length 27mm. As Hattatt Crescent type Aesica, probably most similar to his no.289; a British, probably East Anglian product.
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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