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Description: | Cruciform horse-harness mount made from copper alloy and gilded on the front. It comprises four arms of equal length. In the lozengiform centre is a circular cell, now empty, and there is a circular lobe at each end of each arm with a copper-alloy boss in the centre of each lobe. Around the edge of the brooch is a border of diagonal ribbing which gives the effect of a tightly twisted rope; the arms are filled with two rows of this twisted cable, going in opposite directions with a narrow ridge to the centre and to either side. The cable continues around the terminal lobes and around the central setting.
On the reverse, there are the remains of four rectangular-section lugs, one behind each terminal lobe, running parallel to each arm. Three are now filed down but the fourth is broken at a perforation. There is, in addition, a small square-section filed-down projection behind the central lobe. | 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: | 600
720 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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