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Description: | The wings are semi-cylindrical without wing caps. Through the tube there is an iron axis bar and the pin is hinged on the axis bar at the gap in the tube. Only a fragment of the pin remains. The wings are decorated with vertical ridges.
At the centre of the edge there is a vertical fragment of a circular loop.
TThe bow head is slightly hump-like with a circular platform positioned at the head of the bow This circular platform has a high-relief ring around it. The bow is decorated with a central column of lozenge shapes which are filled with a yellow enamel. Either side of this column there is a column of red triangles filled with red enamel. The enamel is complete all along the bow.
The bow is sub semi-rectangular in section. The bow tapers slightly towards the foot which is expanded and circular in section. The catchplate is incomplete.
The surface of the brooch has a well developed mid green coloured patina. | 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: | 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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