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Description: | Copper-alloy annular brooch, circular and 35 mm in diameter. The frame is rectangular in cross-section, 6.5 mm wide and 2 mm thick, with a very narrow (2 mm wide) pin constriction. The pin is missing. The upper surface of the brooch is engraved with a well-made border groove around each edge. In between is an inscription in small black-letter; the letters which are rather poorly made and spaced, and occasionally cut the inner border groove. The first three, next to the pin constriction, read ihc and are quite well cut; there is then a quatrefoil in a lozenge. After this the quality falls off sharply, with the next letter being a probable n and then another three unreadable letters. Another possible quatrefoil-in-lozenge comes next and then apparently chi, reversing the initial three letters. This inscription takes up just over half of the brooch's circumference and the rest of the space is filled with an untidy design of three long engraved lines and a series of shorter nicks. The reverse is undecorated. The brooch seems reasonably well made (although the pin would have been disproportionately narrow) and so it is odd that the letter-cutting is done so badly; presumably the two processes were done by two different craftsmen. The black-letter dates the brooch to the 15th century. | 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: | 1400
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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