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Description: | Complete rare early hinged plate brooch. The brooch is an octofoil, with each triangular extension depicted as a leaf. Each leaf would have had a slightly rounded terminal however due to wear and damage only one now survives. The leaves are decorated with three or more incised lines depicting the veins and facets of the leaf surface. At each inner angle created by the leaves is a circular hole, therefore creating eight in total. Four of the leaves have a rivet hole drilled through the centre, each of which contains a copper alloy rivet. Each rivet has a solid domed head and a short circular sectioned shank that is flattened on the reverse to secure it to the brooch. The rivets are set within a slightly recessed circle. The centre of the brooch has a recessed circular panel containing a moulded rope-like band. In the centre is a circular hole. On the reverse of the brooch is an integral double lug containing a copper alloy hinged pin. At the other end is a complete simple rolled over catchplate.Two parallels come from Northampton, and are published in Hattatt 1985, pg 138 nos. 513-4.
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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