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Description: | Cast copper alloy medieval annular brooch with pin. The circular brooch frame is flat back and front with sides sloping outwards from the front. It is 26.0mm in external diameter, 19.4mm in internal diameter, 3.3mm wide and 2.1mm thick. The front is decorated with a rough row of punched circles. The frame has two collets cast intergrally, one half way between the pin recess and pin rest on each side. Both collets are oval and taper inwards from the bottom. Both have broken at the top although one retains some of the calcium carbonate material that would have held a glass 'gem'. The pin constriction is narrowed and the frame is expanded to 7.0mm wide and 4.0mm thick at either side; the expanded areas and the pin between them are decorated with random pockmarks. Opposite the pin constriction is a knop extending out from the frame, 9.1mm long, 5.5mm wide and 4.2mm thick; it is also decorated with random pockmarks and punched circles. Because it is higher than the surrounding frame it does not work well as a pin rest. To each side of the 'pin rest' and pin constriction are seperatly made circular rivets running through the frame. They are flush with the back and protrude slightly at front, one is missing and there is a break between the hole it sat in and the edge of the frame. These now serve no purpose but may have held small collets cast seperately, as seen on YORYM-AFCB75 forming a brooch similar in appearence to BH-69D745.The pin has been cast seperately. The loop is oval and has a break at the back - posibly used to push the loop over the frame before being hammered partially closed. Beyond the loop is a square knop after which the pin tapers gradually to a rounded end. The back is flat. The pin is 27.1mm long, 3.0mm wide, 5.5mm thick at the loop and 1.9mm thick pin.The entire piece weighs 6.1g and dates from the 13th to 15th centuries.
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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