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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy and gilded annular brooch of Medieval, thirteenth or fourteenth century date (c. AD 1200 ? c. AD 1400). Diameter 28.0mm and 2.1mm thick. Weight 6.10g.
The brooch has a circular frame and is moulded at the front and flat at the rear. It has a constriction for the pin which is 2.5mm in width. The width of the frame is 5.6mm and the complete pin has an overall length of 24mm, although the tip of the pin is slightly bent to one side of its original alignment. The pin loop is elongated with a length of 7.0mm and a width of 1.6mm. A break at the outer end of the loop allowed the loop to enclose the bar around which it swivelled. The bar is circular in cross-section with a diameter of about 1.2mm. The loop and the shaft are divided by a relatively substantial circular collar which has a diameter of 5.3mm and a width of 2.0mm. The pin shaft is circular in cross-section and has a diameter of 2.0mm where it joins the collar. It tapers to a sharp point.
Decoration on the front face of the frame consists of a continuous moulded pattern of eight lunate motifs each interspersed with two pellets. The rear face is decorated with a continuous incised pattern of thirteen contiguous lozenge motifs within two incised lines, one close to the outer edge and the other near the inside edge.
A patina has not survived but traces of gilding are visible on all surfaces, including that of the pin.
This brooch is similar in shape to others recovered from dated contexts in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 247-55). | 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: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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