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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, knee type. Missing lower bow with catchplate and pin; very corroded around the spring cover because all or part of the spring mechanism is iron. The spring cover is semi-cylindricalwith circular plates at the ends to hold the axis bar; on the top is a crest or lug (not apparently pierced) extending down into the spring area, which resembles a Colchester derivative type fitting rather than the standard knee types. The bow is flat backed with slightly convex sides meeting at a central ridge. Apart from a constriction at the junction with the spring cover, the bow is at its widest and thickest at the top, curving inwards rapidly to the break; it is strongly curved in profile also. On the upper bow are a pair of circular settings 3.4mm in diameter, with central 1mm copper alloy dots. The depth would suggest enamel in the rings but only unidentifiable discoloured fragments survive. The surface around the outer edge of the rings is slightly uneven, and perhaps originally had a white metal inlay as a border. Width 17mm, surviving length 24mm. This is Snape (1993) type 5.1B, and similar to Hattatt nos 1223 etc, but unusual in the combination of features; the 'eye' motifs are most like Hattatt 1222 and similar but these are silver inlay rather than enamel. | 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: | 150
300 | 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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