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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Hod Hill type. Upper half only missing pin; some surface abrasion. Three large transverse ribs with intervening grooves separate the hinge area from the straight-sided main bow. The bow has a slightly convex surface with surviving tinning. There is a central groove and angled lentoid stamps on either side - these may originally have contained niello. Width (hinge) 17mm, surviving length 21mm. Probably Riha 1979 Typ 5.15, nielloed, with simialrities to nos 1262 - 1268. | 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
100 | 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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