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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Birdlip type. Missing spring, pin and lower bow including most of the catchplate. Large trumpet head with a central low relief teardrop shaped moulding and prominent partial hemispherical mouldings on each side. At the base of the trumpet a strong triple transverse moulding, extending as a single rib around the back and flanked at the front by single lower ribs. The forward projecting "beak" has a deep circular pit on each of the two top facets and narrow ribs emphasising the outline of the underside. The lower bow is lozenge-shaped in section and slightly tapered, with the stub of an openwork catchplate behind. Width 16mm, surviving length 39mm. Similarities to an example from Brandon (BRD 043, SCCAS photo ANH 1). | 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: | 1
43 | 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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