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Description: | Medieval gold annular brooch. Flat-sectioned frame with two opposed oval collets which taper towards the top, one containing a purple cabochon stone, probably amethyst or garnet, the other a blue cabochon, perhaps a sapphire. There is a flanged transverse ridge on the upper face at either side of the narrowing for the cast pin. The pin is D-sectioned, with a half round segmented collar next to the loop. The pin rest is formed from a separate lozengiform plate soldered to the frame and decorated with an engraved star formed from eight radiating grooves. Separate soldered arms spring from either side of the pin rest and either side of the narrowing for the pin, and rise to meet the sides of the collets. Each arm is constructed from two elements laid one on top the other, a lower stem terminating in two trefoil leaves, and an upper stem terminating a single trefoil leaf. There are multiple tiny engraved lines around the edges of the leaves and a median groove on each of the upper leaves, and the edges of the leaves have been slightly angled in places to create three dimensional, natural-looking foliage. The reverse is plain.Length (pin rest to ridges at narrowing for pin) 16.5mm. Width 19.5mm. Height (collet and stone) 18mm. Width across flat-sectioned frame 2.5mm. Weight 3.0g.A very similar but perhaps slightly plainer gold brooch, also set with a garnet and a sapphire was found in Warwick, Warwickshire (circa 1300, see Treasure Annual Report 2001, 58, no.90). For a fragment of a similar gilded, silver brooch with three of probably four original collets, see NMS-27A577 (HER44081). See also a fragment of a gilded copper alloy example from a late 14th century context in Egan and Pritchard (2002, 251, fig.162, no.1319).
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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