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Description: | A Medieval copper alloy annular brooch, late 13th - 14th century. This annular brooch has a lozenge-shaped frame which has a right-angle triangle-shaped cross-section. The outer surface is decorated with an incised line running along the mid-line. The inner surface is decorated with four circular cells arranged equidistantly along each side with a notch between each one. Each of the cells probably originally contained a glass pellet. The hole for the pin coincides with the uppermost cell. The pin is still in situ and is made from a strip of wire which is bent around the hole for attachment. The shape of the pin is distorted and it is bent to one side. The copper alloy has a pale-mid green patina.Similar brooches are illustrated in Egan & Pritchard (1991:251 no. 1317) and Margeson (1993:15 no.58). Both these brooches have a circular frame but they do have similar cells and they have the glass pellets still in situ.Dimensions: length: 21.24mm; width: 21.34mm; thickness: 3.61mm; weight: 2.77g.References: Egan G. and Pritchard F. 1991. Dress Accessories: Medieval finds from the Museum of London. The Stationery Office, LondonMargeson, S.1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58.
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