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Description: | Medieval copper alloy gilded square-shaped annular brooch of the reversible type. It measures 13.8x13.5x2.1mm (internal 9.1x9mm) and weighs 1.72g.
One corner of the brooch is waisted for the pin, whose loop fits very neatly around it without any overhang. The pin is quite short (14.4mm) and only just touches the opposite side. It has a 5mm wide, 4mm thick boss (just below the loop) which is decorated with two lines of tiny squares with grooves between. The pin retains some of its gilding.
On one side the brooch is flat and decorated with sixteen cells, alternately plain and with a X or quatrefoil at the centre, within grooves flanking the outside edges of the brooch. This side of the brooch retains the most gilding.
The other side is rather more D-shaped in section, with a raised and slightly flattened mid-rib (which has lost much of its gilding), flanked on either side by a beaded line.
This brooch is remarkably similar to another from St Nicholas & Bonvilston parish in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales [NMGW-E72766], but rather smaller. Such a tiny brooch might be more decorative than functional, and was perhaps sewn on to garments.
Probably 13th or 14th century in date. | 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: | 1201
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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