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Description: | Lead alloy badge. Cast discoid badge resembling the form of a small annular brooch, with a broad band and nine [or ten originally] moulded ring and dot spaced equidistantly around its band. The central part appears to have been filled with five or six small trefoils projecting from the cusps of a tressure, and subsequently partly removed by the knife-cut trimming of a roughly cruciform figure, possibly to permit sewn attachment. A mould line and opposed stubs of fastening gear appear on the back. This object appears to be a member of a class of base metal gew-gaws or trinket jewellery which imitated jewellery of more expensive materials. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1300. Diameter: 22.2mm, Thickness: 1.3mm, Weight: 3.96gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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