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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy brooch of Medieval date. It is lozenge shaped in form, rectangular in section, and with large central openwork lozenge. At one end there is a rectangular constriction for the now missing pin. The front face of the frame has decoration comprising single circular rivet holes at the centre of each arm of the frame, two of which retain separately cast cylindrical copper-alloy bars that presumably once held in place additional decorative elements. The remainder of the front face has incised borders between which are mutiple diagonal and transverse grooves. The entire brooch measures 28.25mm in length, 31.72mm in width, 1.61mm in thickness, and 2.72g in weight. This is an incomplete brooch frame of Medieval date. It finds parallels in brooches of similar form from London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 1343), Meols (Griffiths et al., 2007: nos. 1732-1734), and Winchester (Biddle, 1990: no. 2028) and is of probable c14th century AD date if not slightly earlier or later.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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