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Description: | Medieval copper alloy brooch with most of its gilding complete, measuring 40.3x42.8x1.9mm and weighing 8.19g.It is in the form of a cross. U shapes with incurving ends are between cross-hatched tear-drop shapes. There is an open diamond shape at the centre.One of the four arms has a 2.5mm diameter hole to accomodate a sheet metal pin.The metal was originally heavily gilded, much of which still survives.The brooch is curious in that the metal of the pin is a completely different colour to that of the body. Also one of the arms is thicker at 2.7mm with a flattened top, where somethng has clearly broken off, and the metal directly beneath is worn and without gilding. It seems likely that this object began life as a pendant, at some point became broken and useless, and was transformed into a brooch by adding the pin, although it would have been fairly useless as a brooch as the central hole is not very large!Probably mid-13th to mid-14th century.
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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