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Description: | A Medieval silver annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400.The frame is circular in plan and cross-section and is not recessed for the pin. The frame is decorated with three areas of grooved decoration on the front face only. Each area is identical. It consists of three transverse lines of dots or beading, flaked by narrow raised transvers elines, and separaed from each other by wide shallow grooves which are also found on the outside of each motif. In two areas, the central beaded line is double.The pin is also silver and is a rounded oval in section. There is a notch on the underside of the tip, where it would have rested against the frame. It has a narrow disc like circular collar. This is decorated in two areas on the side with groups of transverse grooves. The loop is bent tightly round the frame and the join is not obvious.The brooch is 33.9mm in diameter, the pin collar is 14.4mm thick and the frame is 8mm thick. 7.92g.It can be compared to many other silver annular brooches recorded on the PAS database, but 2015 T234 (YORYM-96C42D) also has bands of transverse grooves as decoration, and 2012T309 (NMGW-6DE616) has decoration is a similar vein and a pin with a similar disc like collar.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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