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Description: | Silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame was originally circular and probably 24 mm in diameter, but one half is now bent out of shape. It is made from circular-section wire, just 1 mm in diameter, with four 3 mm diameter mouldings spaced evenly around the frame. Each moulding is decorated all around with lots of tiny circular punchmarks which cover the whole surface. There is no pin constriction; the pin moves freely between two of the mouldings. This quarter is the most distorted area of the frame. The pin is circular in cross-section, with a maximum diameter of 1.5 mm. At the junction of the shaft and the solid loop is a moulding, similar to those on the frame, which runs right around the pin's circumference and is 4 mm in diameter. It too is decorated all the way round with tiny circular punchmarks covering the whole surface.
James Robinson at the British Museum has examined this brooch. His report (01.05.2002) reads: "A silver-gilt annular brooch, distorted, measuring 21mm x 25mm and decorated with four symmetrically placed globular projections. Each of these has circular punchmarks creating the impression of clusters. The collar of the pin is similarly decorated. For a comparable example see J. D. A. Thompson, Inventory of British Coin Hoards (London, 1956), no. 56, pl. VII. The brooch dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996 in terms of both age and precious metal content." | 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: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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