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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, gilded oval type. Missing the pin, most of the spring and the central glass setting. The pin was sprung on a single lug and a surviving thick wire, bent down to meet the back of the plate and with a thinner wire fragment looped on it, may be the remains of a mend modification. The front and sides of the oval plate are gilded, and gilding is also visible on the back towards the edges behind a white metal surface. The catchplate and spring lug are coated in white metal only. The front of the brooch has a central oval setting, 17 x 12mm, defined by a 3mm high ridge. Two concentric bands of stamped decoration are separated by a small rib; the inner has continuous relief X's with dots in the lozenges between the crosses and the outer has broad V stamps. Diameters 30mm x 24mm. It is an example of Hattatt's glass centre boss type. An example from Lackford (LKD 018) also has cross motifs. | 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
410 | 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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