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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, hinged head enamelled type. Missing lower bow and pin, corroded margins. The hinge bar is copper alloy and iron traces at the centre are probably the remains of the pin. The hinge and narrower upper bow are set at right angles to the main bow, and they have transverse grooves on the top of the hinge and mouldings on the bow. The main bow is a flat plate, 3mm thick, with indented sides. The enamelled cells, in which only traces of discoloured enamel survive, are a triangle at top and bottom with curved cells following the shape of the sides. The lower bow was also offset but less than the hinge - the scar suggests that it was about 6mm wide. Width 18mm, surviving length 23mm. The equal ended types are usually Continental, deriving from the Hod Hill series; this one is unusually heavy. Only one close parallel was identified, an unpublished brooch from Charsfield, Suffolk (CHA 011) with very similar bow and enamelling and which has a snake-head type of foot. | 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: | 80
200 | 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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