File:Lead alloy zoomorphic brooch or badge (FindID 900930).jpg

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Lead alloy zoomorphic brooch or badge
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Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service, Sophie Flynn, 2018-05-08 14:58:01
Title
Lead alloy zoomorphic brooch or badge
Description
English: Cast lead-alloy badge, prooch or decorative pin.

The badge is incomplete though would likely have taken a sub-circular form. There is a roughly cylindrical circle that forms the outer border, inside which, and attached to the border with thin stems of lead-alloy, is the figure of an animal, likely a snake. The body of the snake curves to form the outer circular border, and though some of the badge is missing, it appears that the border curves back into the centre and becomes the snake's tail, where it terminates in the snake's mouth.

Two thin strips of lead hold the snake's head and body in place, and the remains of a third are present in the broken knop on the snake's body directly below the head.

Suggested date, medieval, c. 1200 - 1500 AD.

Dimensions: weight: 9.43g, width: 31.2mm, height: 25.6mm, thickness: 6.1mm
Depicted place (County of findspot) Buckinghamshire
Date between 1200 and 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 900930
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1012581
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1012581/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/900930
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