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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative type with double pierced lug spring attachment. Missing pin and half spring; twisted around the centre of the bow, the front surface of which is damaged in this area. The surviving half spring has 7 turns. Each wing has a broad groove at the terminal. The bow is flat backed with small side flanges and tapers to a blunt point. The bow sides are almost flat and angled to meet at a central apex, along which there is a centre groove. The catchplate is solid and does not have a pin groove. Width 27mm, length 57mm. A sub type of the double lug Colchester derivatives, eg West Stow (which have a more ornate centre band) nos 154, 157, 159 (West 1990, EAA 48, 69-70) and Stonea (Jackson & Potter 1996, Fig.95 no 32) which has flat wings. | 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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