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Description: | Brooch description: A medieval silver-gilt annular brooch, now slightly distorted and bent. The front has two facets, the back would originally have been flat. The pin is still attached to the brooch by its loop. On the front of the brooch are two steeply raised conical collets, at right angles to the pin, one of which still holds a green stone (either glass or emerald), the other now empty having lost its stone.The front of the brooch is decorated with two quatrefoils, one divided by the constriction that attaches the pin to the brooch, the other where the pin rests on the brooch. The front also has an inscription, in Lombardic script, running around both facets which reads: +AVE: MARIA: GRACIA: PLENA: DOM: (Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord [is with thee]). The back of the brooch is plain. There is worn geometric engraving on the pin and the loop, and its collar has punched decoration.Dimensions: diameter at pin 30 mm, diameter at collets 35 mm, height of collets 7 mm. Weight: 4.8 g.The brooch dates from c.1200 to 1350 AD. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.Beverley Nenk, Curator of Medieval Collections9 October 2013This object was reported in conjunction with Medieval coins, found a close distance away. The report for the coins follows:The coins description: The three coins of the find are cut fragments of the silver penny of the English Short Cross coinage (cutting the penny up into halfpennies and farthings was then the only way to create other denominations). Two of the coins are identifiable to a point and their issue can be dated more precisely to the first decade of the 13th century. The details are as follow.Short Cross Coinage (1180-1247)Cut halfpenny, class 5c (1207-c.1210), London, 0.61, [ ]ON.LVNDCut farthing, class uncertain, London, 0.33, [ ]ON.LV[ ]Cut farthing, class 5 (1204-c.1210) Ilger or Rener, London, 0.35, [ ]ER.[ ]The Short Cross coinage was removed from currency in a wholesale recoinage in 1247. The coins are of good silver (over 90% fine metal) and would have been in circulation together, but they could represent separate losses across a period of decades, as much as a single deposit. The evidence of the coins on their own would not, therefore, provide clear justification for them to be considered as Treasure, under the terms of the Act.Dr Barrie J. Cook, Curator of Medieval and Early Modern CoinageDepartment of Coins and Medals, British Museum3 October 2012Conclusion: Although the coins consist of over 10% precious metal and are over 300 years old they do not appear to represent a single loss and therefore do not constitute Treasure. The wide date range of the brooch means that it is not possible to say that the coins and the brooch were found together as a group and therefore the coins cannot be Treasure by association. The brooch is over 300 years old and consists of over 10% precious metal and therefore does appear to constitute Treasure as defined by the Treasure Act 1996.
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