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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, early plate type. Missing pin and parts of the projecting elements around the plate, plus any settings; hinge damaged and bent; surface abraded. The pin was hinged on two close set lugs. The plate is up to 1.2mm thick. A centre hole has a recessed circular area around it, with rib and concentric groove defining a diameter of 11.3mm. The outer area has alternating pointed and rounded elements (four of each), all with single hole except the pointed elements over the spring and hinge. There are traces of a decorative line of punched dots, within which there are the remains of a white metal (tinned) surface. Length c.27mm. As Hattatt no.513. | 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
70 | 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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