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Description: | A slightly corroded but nevertheless still impressive very large Thistle brooch. The brooch has cylindrical wings which have corrosion damage at both ends, the obverse is decorated with multiple rayed engraved lines. The reverse has a central vertical sub-rectangular slot out of which the intact copper-alloy pin protrudes, the cylinder is closed on the reverse by wrapping one end of the metal around the other. The short highly arched bow is decorated with 'reeded' moulding and has a bar running underneath the upper end of the arch, the bar is 'heavy' with a plano-convex shaped 'head' at each end. The disc is badly corroded but appears to have been a highly decorated repousse circular plate with a central half-circle just below the bow which is decorated with 7 drop shaped cells which may have been enamelled, outside of this is a narrow section of deeply grooves, there are a further 3 sections to the plate, but any decoration has been destroyed by corrosion. The 'fan' is decorated in the same way as the bow. There is a small section of catchplate extant on the reverse, and from the remaining 'stump' it is possible to see that the catchplate ran from the outer edge of the tail onto the reverse of the plate and was approximately 56mm long. | 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: | 43
75 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rhiannon Harte | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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