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Description: | Two gilded fragments considered by D. Forkes to be of a base silver alloy (see NCM Conservation Lab. report), & probably of the same brooch or mount. Both are in very delicate condition. The larger is now very roughly lozengiform, but little of the edge is original. It is decorated with three-strand interlace on each side of a straight median line. At one end of this line is a square motif, in the centre a roughly circular depression where no decorated surface survives, & at the other end part of a straight sided perforation. The other, smaller, fragment has two small arms, one carrying some gilded grooved decoration & possibly joining the straight side of the above-mentioned perforation. If this is correct then a square aperture would have occurred at this point. The rest of this piece has no surviving surface apart from a tiny patch of gilding near the broken edge on what is probably another circular depression.
On the reverse two sides of the square aperture are marked by a raised rib, & on the reverse of the square motif are traces of another rib & a faint square scar.
POL, DRAW
To be retained for consideration as Treasure. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 650
850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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