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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Knee type. Missing spring, pin and catchplate. Semi-cylindrical spring cover with pierced circular plates at ends and single grooves at terminals. Raised rectangular moulding along the bottom edge of the spring cover at bow junction. The bow has a narrow triangular section, with the flat edge to the front, and broadens into a flat ended rectangular foot with traces of a punched circle and large dot motif. Curved profile. Length 33mm, width 19mm. Type as Snape 1993 Group 5.1A, eg Snape Fig 8, no.44. ? generally a Rhineland type, but also one from Colchester (Crummy 1983, no.70) very similar and fragments from Ufford and Wenhaston (UFF 020, WMH 005) in Suffolk. | 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: | 150
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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