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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Polden Hill variant. Missing spring and pin, damaged foot and catchplate. The axis bar was held by folded over 6mm wide tabs at the wing ends and the chord by a rear hook. Towards their ends the wings have a broad concave moulding with two narrow ribs and grooves. The bow has a flat back and sides and three narrow ribs/ four grooves along the front; it tapers to a footknob similar to sf8725 but the projecting part is damaged. Length 37mm, width 32mm, Type as Scole 1977 no 1 and sf8725 from this site; amongst other Suffolk egs the proportions and detail are close to one from Wenhaston (WMH 005 CatchpoleB9). | 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
75 | 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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