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Description: | A cast copper-alloy brooch of medieval date. The brooch is sub-circular in shape (?following old damage) and circular in section. It features four annular knops; two of these are only 5.7mm apart and as such they act to restrict the pin. The other two knops are located at regular intervals around the frame. Between the two individual knops and the pair there are three sexfoil motifs applied on the obverse. Two of these have suffered from abrasions, one of them particularly so. The pin was found separately to the frame. It is of cast copper-alloy construction with an open loop. It is sub-square in section. It is 46.9mm in length, 3.4mm in width and 6.2mm at its thickest point. The thickest point is a rectangular moulding between the junction of the loop and the shaft. An example illustrated in Read (2001, 110; ref. 818) is silver-gilt but features similar knops and applied decoration. Its c. 13th - c. 14th-century date informs the dating of this artefact. | 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: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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