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Description: | Copper-alloy annular brooch, complete with pin. The frame is 22 mm square and a truncated triangle in cross-section. The narrow flat top is decorated with a line of rouletting; the pattern is very small, but appears to be a zigzag line crossed by a longitudinal line. The external edge of each side has two deep incurves with a grooved chevron in between. The inner edges have grooved decoration, all approximating to three chevrons, but in some cases rather badly made. The shaping of the external edges means that the corners appear to project, and each is cut off by a groove. There is also a grooved chevron on the top of three of the corners, again tending to be rather badly made. The fourth corner has a constriction for the pin, which is made of circular-section copper-alloy wire with two widely spaced grooves at the junction of shaft and loop. The chevron at the opposite corner in effect gives two alternative pin rests. Two small patches of shiny white-metal coating on reverse. A very intricately designed, if not particularly well made, brooch. | 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: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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