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Description: | Gilt copper alloy annular brooch, circular in plan, made of three coiled copper alloy wires that have then been gilded. The rectangular hinge that held the pin remains on the back of the brooch along with the base of the catch on the opposite side, but the pin is missing. From the gilt areas that remain, it is clear that the process used to gild the copper alloy wire, once it was coiled, was by electro-plating, which suggests that the brooch dates from a time after this was introduced around 1840. See NARC-068077 for a similar coiled copper-alloy brooch, which is dated from the Post-Medieval period.
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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