applied brooch

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Object Type
Museum number: 1970,0406.459
Description: Copper-alloy applied brooch with hammered decoration, gilded, in two fragments; also two fragments of upright copper-alloy rim, gilded on the inside; one has overlapping joint with very thin hammered down copper-alloy rivet; textile remains; also three bags of tiny fragments.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Mucking, grave 589 cemetery II, inhumations
Materials: copper alloy; gold
Technique: hammered; applied; gilded
Dimensions: Diameter: 44 millimetres; Weight: 13.40 grammes
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1970
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1970,0406.459

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