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Description: | Copper alloy crescent shaped enamelled brooch. Missing pin, damaged lugs and catchplate; corroded and damaged margins. The pin was hinged on two close-set lugs. The crescent shape has a narrow border and the remainder enamelled, most of which has now gone aappart from a small area of opaque orange. The terminals are extended but badly damaged; they appear to turn outwards and to be different (one shorter and more sharply out-turned). Length 32mm, width 22mm, plate 2.5mm thick. Although there are enamelled crescent egs (as Hattatt no.597, 1146) these do not have terminals, whereas the early tinned crescent types have in-turned terminal knobs (eg Hattatt 1006), and no precise parallel can be found (Hattatt, Riha 1979, Suffolk egs) for this one. If the asymetric ends are part of the design it may relate to the object represented - ?boat, ?swimming bird perhaps. | 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
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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