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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, unusual enamelled form of hinged brooch with fantail and central wings. Missing pin, some corrosion and abrasion. The wings, constructed as for a Colchester derivative, have single grooves at the terminals and contain iron stained deposits, perhaps suggesting an iron hinge bar although no magnetic response detected. The upper bow has a convex back and a fairly low rounded face with a central notched rib. The rib divides at mid bow to define a central triangle, now without enamel. On each side the bow projects into forward angled triangular wings, also lacking their enamel, with a curving groove defining the junction with the edge of the bow. Transverse grooves separate the lower bow which expands to a fantail shape with enamelled side triangles (almost empty apart from some discoloured traces) and a centre triangle containing probably discoloured brownish-orange enamel. Width (wings) 22mm, length 27mm. This is not easily paralleled or classified as a type, though the overall impression is of a very devolved Aesica type. | 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: | 60
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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