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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled brooch in the form of a flattened swimming bird. Missing pin, one hinge lug; damaged margins, tail ends, head. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs. The body consists of a flat disc, with small (now very abraded) projections at the sides as wings and a triangular projection for the tail; at the opposite end the neck and head project up from the disc and outwards. The head has deep dots for the eyes but the shape at the top is very abraded. The body disc has traces of notching on the outer rim which is 1.5mm wide; within this the area is recessed for enamel except for three rings arranged around the base of the neck. These rings contain blue enamel; the remaining area has a discoloured, possibly red enamel, some of which is missing. The tail has a transverse rib at the junction with the body and is decorated with three rows of stamped arcs; at the end there is a central semicircular notch which seems to be the original outline. Surviving length 35mm, disc diameter 22mm, disc thickness 2.5mm. A very similar eg from Hitcham, Suffolk (HTC 013) but not a common type. | 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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