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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Sawfish type. Missing pin and attachment mechanism. The wings are flat fronted and slightly thickened top and bottom at the back - it is not apparent how a pin was attached and there is no sign of the "compressed tubular" wing of Hattatt's no.936. Above there is a worn chain loop. Each wing has a hole, formed with sides sloping in, with possible wear towards the wing terminals - Hattatt nos 936 and 937 and other comparable egs have similar piercings described as recesses for a setting, now lost. There is usually a third 'recess' on the upper bow, but this example has a circular solid headstud with an incised 4-line star. The bow has a thin rectangular section and tapers slightly to a forward projecting circular foot knob; this knob matches the headstud except that the incised lines are cross hatched. The front of the bow has enamelled lozenges (two with surviving orange paste) and triangles (all discoloured to pale green). Five knobs project along each side of the bow. Length 37mm, width 22mm. Very similar to Hattatt no. 937 except for the headstud. Sawfish types are not common in Suffolk and this is the first flat wing type recorded here. | 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: | 70
250 | 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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