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Description: | A highly decorative copper alloy brooch, known as a 'Coronet' type dating to the 13th century. This type of brooch has been found across the country from the North West in Meols down to Romney in the South (Geoff Egan, pers. Comm.). The brooch is annular and the hinged pin on this example is complete. The brooch frame is ornately cast so that six turrets, each forming a bezel, rise up from the frame and splay outwards into a crown shape, hence the term 'coronet'. Between each turret the sheet copper alloy rises to a point (terminating lower than the bezels) and has been cast with four small decorative holes. Each of the six bezels would have been set with either a semi-precious stone or glass setting. Although none of these survive, there is residual white paste in each setting where they would have been. The brooch weighs 12.97g and measures 36.1mm in diameter and 11.7mm in thickness.
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