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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Colchester derivative / Polden Hill type. Upper half only, missing pin and part spring, very corroded. The spring is held by a rear hook and 7mm wide folded wing terminals around the axis bar. The wings have pairs of grooves at the bow junction and at the terminals and diagonally. The bow is oval in section with two grooves along the centre (traces only surviving). Width 32mm, surviving length 27mm. Of the same group as published examples from West Stow (West 1989, 71, no.160) and Scole (Mackreth 1977, 130 no.2) and various unpub;lished examples from Suffolk; this group normally has more elaborate decoration along the mid bow than this fragment. | 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
65 | 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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