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Description: | A cast copper-alloy annular brooch of medieval date, incomplete in as much as it is missing the tip of its pin. The frame is sub-circular, with protrusions at the cardinal points. Because all of the protrusions extend inwards (as well as outwards) the recess at the centre of the brooch is quadrilobate. At the sides are platforms that extend outwards from the frame, and to a lesser extent inwards. From these platforms tapering collets emerge. There is no longer anything in the concavities at the summits of collets but it assumed that they would have held precious stones or imitations of such. At the other cardinal points are, respectively, a pin constriction and an oval moulding. The constriction is flanked by transverse ridges. A basic thick sheet pin of triangular cross-section survives at the constriction but it is broken around halfway down its shaft, as mentioned. The frame is bevelled internally and externally on its upper surface; the lower surface is flat. The frame therefore has a trapezoidal cross-section. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with finely punched annulets between the protrusions, and also longitudinally along the oval moulding. The frame has corroded to a dark-grey colour with small patches of yellowy-white corrosion product. The pin, of a different alloy, has a green patina. A broadly similar brooch can found be illustrated in Read (2001, 109; ref. 783), although the published example has a perforation rather than a constriction, and is larger. A brooch found in Langrish CP (ref. SUSS-934C28) provides a close parallel.
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