annular brooch

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Object Type
Museum number: 1970,0406.522
Description: Fragments of a copper-alloy annular brooch with traces of white metal (?tinning) and traces of iron pin and hinge; design is an incised line around the outer circumference with a ring of punched triangles inside this and a ring of punched diamonds inside this; a further incised line runs around the inner circumference and in some places there appear to be more than one incised circle; textile traces.
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Mucking, grave 624 cemetery II, inhumations
Materials: copper alloy; iron; tin (?); textile
Technique: tinned (?); incised; punched
Dimensions: Diameter: 40 millimetres (approximately); Weight: 0.50 grammes; Width: 10 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1970
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1970,0406.522

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