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Description: | A copper-alloy annulet or ring brooch dating to the medieval period (1250 - 1450). The frame is circular in plan and irregular in cross section. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with six collets (or turrets) which are evenly spaced. Between the collets the frame is decorated with a series of punched annulets arranged in two parallel rows. Between two of the collets the brooch bulges inwards to accommodate a pierced hole (diameter 2.1mm). Originally a pin, now lost, would have been fixed. There is no evidence of a pin rest on the opposite side of the frame, although this is also between two collets. The collets are circular in plan and all are filled with an abraded white coloured paste, which has a powdery friable surface. The reverse face of the brooch is plain and undecorated; it has been heavily filed which has left diagonal marks on almost all unseen (lower and inner) surfaces. Where original patinated surfaces survive the brooch is a mid matt silver grey colour, probably as a result of an applied tin surface. Where abrasion has affected the brooch a light-mid green corroded patina survives. A similar brooch with a different pin is published in Norwich Households page 14-15 for illustrations and page 16 for discussion, brooch no 58. Two comparable examples recorded by the PAS can be seen BH-69D745 and CORN-57C613The brooch measures 23.7mm diameter, the frame is 4.4mm wide and 2.6mm thick, the collets project 0.5mm above the surface of the frame and are 3.6mm in diameter. It weighs 3.13 grams
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