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Description: | The brooch is in the form of a sitting cock or hen. The body, whose edges are heavily abraded is a sub pointed oval shape in plan. The under side is hollow, and the outer surface has a convex curve. The outer surface is decorated with three rows of rectangular blocks, alternating blocks being decorated with blue enamel, however, some of the enamelling is missing. Other blocks have a different coloured enamel, which may have been red. The birds head is two-dimensional and protrudes forming an inverted 'L' shape. The head has a small circular cell forming the eye. The bird has no obvious tail, and there is no suggestion it has broken off from the brooch. The underside is undecorated, but has at the 'tail end' two parallel and incomplete lugs. At the opposite end there is an incomplete, off-centre ridge, which presumably was the catchplate originally. The brooch has a mid-dark green coloured patina. On the neck there is traces of a silver coloured wash, tinning or silvering? | 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: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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