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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Colchester type. The brooch is corroded, missing half the spring and pin, the catchplate is damaged and bow and one wing is very bent. The left hand wing (which may be incomplete) has two vertical grooves but nothing is visible on the other wing. The bow has a flattish back with slight facets at the edges, and the surface is rough with ?hammer/chisel marks. At the front the sides are slightly flattened and rise to a recessed centre band with oblique lines/grooves. The bow tapers slightly and then narrows at the end to a blunt point. The catchplate has no certain holes, although one rectangular one is possible. Surviving width 15mm, length as bent 48mm, originally c.65mm. See Stonea (Jackson & Potter 1996) Fig 93 no 1 for similar bow section tending to hexagonal, and Mackreth's comparisons (p.300) suggest a pre-Conquest date. | 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: | 25
65 | 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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