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Description: | The Early Medieval brooch is made from cast copper alloy and iron. In length it is 40.1mm and 7.8mm wide across the spring. It weighs 6.12g.
The spring component of the brooch appears to be made of iron, which is fitted through a copper alloy cylinder. The iron is visible, and fills this cyliner. No details of the spring is otherwise visible and the pin is missing. The cylinder is intgral to the bow. There does not appear to be a missing head plate for example, as there are no broken edges on the upper portion of the bow.
The bow tapers towards a blunt point at the foot. It is decorated with high-relief horizontal ridges which are 'V' shaped in profile. There are five of these ridges, and they terminate at the mid point and apex of the bow. On the lower portion of the bow are two pairs of three feint horizontal grooves.
The catchplate is solid and complete.
The surface of the brooch has a well developed shiny light green patina, and the iron is stable. | 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: | 410
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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