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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy non-enamelled openwork plate brooch, if symmetrical then slightly more than half extant, pin and pin lug missing. There is one teardrop-shaped aperture and on the sides there are two almost-round and two incomplete, probably pelta-shaped moulded cut-outs. The separate catchplate (now distorted and twisted around) is riveted onto the brooch, and on the front face the burred over end of the rivet is surrounded by a circular slightly sunken field which, to judge from its different patination, was once covered by some form of cap. Decoration on the front consists of very fine dot, rectangular and triangular stamped impressions set out in curving parallel lines, and a small rectangular boss at the terminal. Don Mackreth comments: The design is a little unusual, but the affiliations, indeed, the family, is well known. The brooch type has many different outlines, but the feature which is common to them all is a stud riveted through the sunken circular depression, usually with some form of annulus in the bottom. The type is always hinged and with a catch-plate of normal type. This has been damaged and been replaced by the riveted thing at right angles to the plate using the hole for the stud. The stamped decoration is a little more elaborate than usual. The dating is relatively restricted: none before the conquest, but common through to about 60 and then tailing off. Type 20 in my forthcoming book. Estimated length 45mm (extant length 26.5mm). Width 20mm.
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