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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy brooch with part of the pin still attached. The small brooch has a square frame with a circular hole in the middle. One side has a constriction at the centre to hold the pin and the opposite side of the inner circle is worn. The pin has an oval head looped around the thinned section of frame. The loop ends in a square collar from which the circular sectioned pin projects; it is broken shortly below the collar with a corroded break. The surfaces are badly corroded, obscuring any decoration but traces of gilding survive on both sides. It is 17.0 by 16.6mm and 2.2mm thick; it weighs 1.84 grams.Square 'annular' brooches are not uncommon (cf SOMDOR-869921, SF8945, WILT-DAA9E2 etc) but this exmaple is unusual in having the pin constriction in the centre of a side rather than in a corner as is normal for square examples. Constrictions on the side are known in hexagonal brooches (SF-8EE9D7) and on those with figurative decoration (ESS-0F4B97), decoration on the corners (Egan and Pritchard 1993:257, no.1343), or wider frames (NMS-1A4B12) and it may be some detail of the design on this example made this attachment method preferred.
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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