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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative with variant of the Polden Hill spring attachment system. Missing spring, pin, part wing, much of catchplate, damaged rear hook; bow bent; corroded and abraded, especially bow front. The spring axis bar was held by 4mm wide tabs folded round at the terminals and the chord by a rear hook. The wing end has traces of a concave moulding and grooves. The bow is D-section but with a slightly convex back. The front has traces of a centre groove or grooves and tapers to a small foot knob (showing only as a slight forward projection in profile. Length 37mm, surviving width 23mm. Type as Scole (Mackreth in Rogerson 1977, EAA 5, 129-130) no.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: | 43
80 | 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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