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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled brooch. The pin is missing and there is corrosion damage on the margins including catchplate; enamel also incomplete. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs. The plate is a thickened crescent in outline with knob terminals; the back is flat, the front slightly convex and thickening to the terminals. Decoration consists of three rows of enamelled cells following the curve of the long edges; the centre row is 2mm wide squares, probably 12 of, alternately red and blue enamel. The outer rows are triangles with points towards the middle row. The inner row of 9 have mostly lost their colour, but two adjacent cells contain red. The outer row of ?15 has only one with surviving traces of red. The terminal knobs are badly damaged; although now asymetric they could have been identical originally. Length 37mm, width 27mm, plate c.3mm thick. No comparable shape examples found in Hattatt, nor Riha (1979). The finder suggests that the outline suggests a boat; however this interpretation would put the pin hinge on the right, whereas the left would be normal - so it is more like that the knobs face down or sideways. | 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: | 80
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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