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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy sheet strap end missing its backplate and possibly also a forked spacer (on the reverse of the surviving plate is an outline following the edge). It is bent and measures 32mm long. It narrows from 9.5mm wide to 8.5mm wide at the knop-end. At the wider short end is a 1.5mm diameter rivet hole. The actual end itself is bent and possibly jagged. It is unclear whether this is a break or just a damaged edge. Both long edges are flanked by a groove and the area between the two grooves is filled with vertical grooves, some flankned by rocker-arm decoration, possibly in the imitation of letters. Very roughly, reading from rivet end (left) to knop-end (right), V (with a I inside) (rocker arm)Ki II (rocker arm inside) upside down V(rocker arm). The knop end itself is quite crude, but ends in point, from which the knop projects. On the reverse of the brooch there is an area of silver, ?solder. A slightly raised area following the line of a spacer runs down one long side and across behind the knop-end, before ending abruptly, most likely through loss of surface. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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