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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled domed disc brooch. Corroded and damaged edges, especially projections, and two of the enamelled triangles are now holes; bent / squashed. The pin is hinged between two close set lugs. The domed plate has a centre dot and two concentric rows of 14 triangles - traces of enamel suggest alternate red and blue in the inner row and all blue in the outer row. The circumference has a broad groove. There are abraded projections at the sides, a knob at the foot and a broad knob at the head which may also have held a small headloop. Surviving length 28mm, diameter c.21mm, plate height c.6mm. Hattatt's "umbonate" type as no 128 and Hacheston (EAA 106, 2004) no.178. | 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: | 100
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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