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Description: | A thin, annular (circular) brooch made of copper-alloy. The brooch has an internal diameter of 22.0mm. The frame of the brooch is rectangular in section. Its internal and external edges have been given border grooves. Between these grooves, on the upper face of the frame, are inscribed the Gothic capital letters IASPIE? RE? RT? extending round the whole circumference of the brooch. The reverse is undecorated. The lettering could be interpreted as forming the French 'j'aspier ert', where 'ert' is an inflection of 'ĂȘtre' (to be) and 'aspier' means 'to spy' (Anglo-Norman; from the Old French 'espier'). It could therefore be loosely translated as 'I was spying'. Between the inscribed letters is finely incised cross-hatching. There is a very narrow constriction (of 2mm) in the frame, around which the pin would have been looped; the pin is now missing. Bounding the lettering, and either side of the pin recess, are initial and terminal marks which are angular quatrefoil in form. It appears that the pin might have been rent from the frame as the frame is bent out of alignment on one side of this junction. Such damage, however, could equally have been caused by the plough. A similar example can be found on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (SF8380). The brooch (SF8380) was dated to the fifteenth century; this example can be dated as later medieval.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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