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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Aesica type. Missing spring, pin, damaged arms, foot and catchplate. Rear hook attachment, diagonal lines on arms. Upper bow has four incised lines (cf. Hattatt no 292) and a slight rib at the very top forming the base of the rear hook. There are no knobs at mid bow and the upper part is very angular (cf. Hattatt no 1474). The mid bow arrangement has an inverted triangle with 2 small steps down from the mid bow angle and a further 2 shallow steps below the triangle - similar to Hattatt 292 but with an extra step and no decoration, less stepped and shorter than Hattatt 1474. The foot expands to a fantail (incomplete) with incised lines (at least 3 each side) angled from the edges to the centre. Surviving length 37mm, width 21mm. As Hattatt points out (1989, 38) the elements of this type (rear hook etc) suggest an Eastern England origin and the two comparable e.g.s (nos. 292, 1474) both derive from Norfolk. Further examples with the stepped inverted triangle have been recorded from Mildenhall (MNL 075, 142) | 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: | 43
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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