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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, type as Hattatt's Wroxeter variant. Missing pin, foot; surface corroded and abraded and an iron stained concretion obscures some areas, in particular infills the headloop. The pin was hinged on a bar held in cast semi-cylindrical lugs on the flat back of the head. At the top of the head is an integral large headloop (c. 5mm internal diameter); below this three transverse grooves. The bow, which is the same width as the head, has an almost flat front and a deep convex back. Three parallel longitudinal cells along the front contain traces of enamel, now totally discoloured but perhaps originally divided into shorter rectangular peices of different colours. Below this, at the apex of the bow curve, is a central circular knob, now very abraded, perhaps defined by a groove. The lower bow has a slightly convex back and sides which meet in a rounded centre ridge; it tapers sharply and in profile the curve is concave (as Hattatt describes "inwardly curved").There is no decoration on the surviving lower bow. Width 13mm, surviving length 61mm. Hattatt (1989 p96) describes the type as a variant of the Wroxeter and cites 10 similar in the shape of the foot to the present eg which have a broad distribution; the example he illustrates however (no.1538) is extremely similar to this one and said to have been found in Eye, Suffolk. | 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
250 | 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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