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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Aesica variant type. Missing pin, spring, upper bow recently chipped, otherwise in good condition. The spring chord was held by a rear hook, and possible solder corrosion in the left hand side of the back of the wings may have held the spring. The wings fronts each have a single terminal groove and a diagonal groove. The bow consisits of a flat plate with an arched upper segment on top and an applied crescentic loop at the centre. The upper bow has a centre rib, flanked by broad concave mouldings; there are small side projections at the base of the arched area, above the narrow straight element which joins the back plate near the top of the crescent. The crescent has angled pairs of grooves forming a zigzag. The fantail outline lower bow has three concave mouldings flanked by narrow grooves ? one central, the others parallel to the sides. Width 19mm, length 31mm, weight 8.86gm. Type as Hattatt nos 287, 288 etc which have an East Anglian distribution as the rear hook fixing would also suggest. Similar egs recorded from Suffolk from Brandon (BRD 081), Burgate (BUR 020), Coddenham (CDD 017 179). | 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
80 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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