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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Polden Hill variant type. Missing pin, damaged foot and catchplate, extremely bent. The axis bar is held by 8mm wide flaps folded round at the wing ends and the chord by a small rear hook. 9 turn spring. No surviving decoration on the wings. D-section tapered bow, but with a slightly convex back. A pair of narrow grooves run from the rear hook along the centre of the bow. The stub of the catchplate is sheet metal in a slot in the bow. Reconstructed length c. 47mm, width 30mm. No close parallels amongst the Suffolk examples of this variant. | 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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