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Description: | The Early Medieval brooch is made from cast copper alloy and iron. In length it is 41mm and 13.6mm wide across the spring. It weighs 7.56g.
The spring component of the brooch is made of iron, which is fitted through a copper alloy lug. An iron axis bar is visible with an iron spring coiled around it. The definition of the spring is lost, therefore the number of coils cannot be counted. The pin is missing.
The lug is integral to the reverse of the bow head. The bow head is a small rectangular vertical plate, but seems to be too small to be considered as a formal head plate. However there are no broken edges visible. The bow protrudes at almost right-angles from the bow head. The bow is triangular in section and forms a curvaeous 'C' in profile. The upper portion of the bow is wider than the lower portio as the bow has a step. The foot of the bow is a integral vertical trapezoidal shaped plate, which is slightly triangular in section.
The catchplate is solid, but slightly incomplete, the lower corner of the curl is missing, but this damage was not recent.
The surface of the brooch has a well developed shiny light grey/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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