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Description: | Annular brooch made from copper alloy. The circular frame is undecorated and oval in cross-section; it is interrupted by a recess for the pin. Perpendicular to where the pin would have sat on the frame is a slender bar, making the brooch look superficially like a buckle. Close examination of the reverse suggests that the bar was made separately and fixed into a slot on the reverse. The brooch is 21 mm in diameter, and the frame is 2 mm wide and 4 mm thick. It weighs 5.02g. This cross-bar is found on several brooches with very similar frames, which are distinctive because they have pins which are enlarged in the centre into discs. It is likely that this frame is also from a disc-on-pin brooch. It is hard to see how the bars would have functioned, and they would have made use as a brooch difficult. 'Disc-on-pin' brooches are probably later medieval; compare SUR-04AFF5, which has been published in Medieval Archaeology vol. 49 (2005) p. 346 and fig. 9a. Date range should probably be 1400-1500.
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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