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Description: | A cast copper alloy annular brooch. In plan, the brooch frame is circular and in section it is a slender rectangle. The frame has a narrowed section forming a bar, around which the pin is curled. The pin is an elongated triangle in plan, and tapers to a blunt point. The upper surface of the pin is decorated with transverse grooves where the pin meets the frame. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with fine transverse and oblique grooves. The underside is undecorated. The frame and pin have an abraded dark green/grey incomplete patina. The brooch measures 28.54mm diameter and 4.96mm thick at the pin loop. It weighs 2.8g. A similar decorated brooch are illustrated in Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households; Medieval and Post Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58) No. 60. It is commented (Margeson: p.15) that these simplistic annular brooches were used as clothes' fastenings, and belt and purse fastenings from the 12th to 14th centuries, and the more decorated examples are 14th century. Egan and Pritchard (Egan and Pritchard 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) illustrate very similar brooches, for example No. 1313 is decorated in a similar manner. This brooch dates to the late 13th to mid 14th centuries.
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