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Description: | Medieval cast copper-alloy annular brooch. The frame is complete but the pin is missing. The frame is circular in form with flat back and moulded front. Around the ring are four oval expansions with raised ovals on the front, each with a circular indent that may originally have held a glass or paste gem. The four narrow sections between the expansions are uneven lengths. The one with the constriction for the pin loop and, opposite it, the one with a central groove of the pin rest are longer. There are two circular indents on each of the narrow sections, placed one each side of the pin construction and pin rest and more irregularly on the other two sections. It is 19.9mmm in maximum diameter (at expansions, 18.0 between), 2.8mm in thickness (inclusing raised ovals), and weighs 1.51g. It is simialar to published examples from 13th to 14th century contexts although there is a wide variety of decoration on these examples and none of those in the usual sources are identical. In particuar most of those with gem setting have collets which project further from the front in a plain turret.
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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