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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Knee type. Upper half only, missing pin. Cylindrical spring cover, cut away at the back but with integral pierced plate at either end to hold the iron axis bar. Corrosion from the iron axis bar has spread across and obscured the spring, which appears to have c. 8 turns. Traces of white metal coating on the front. Hollow backed rounded undecorated bow. Simple join to spring cover. Width 19mm, surviving length 16mm. Snape 1993 type 5.1B | 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: | 150
299 | 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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