form. The silver frame is of flattened rectangular cross-section. The back face is plain; the front face bears the inscription in raised Lombardic letters within countersunk panels:
AVE MARIA .
The plain pin with oval cross-section has a small transverse bar at the junction of the shaft with the wrap-around head.
Maximum external frame width 20.02mm; maximum external frame thickness 1.1mm. Pin length 10.3mm (tip of point missing). The brooch weight is 2.11g.
n terms of size and design, the brooch is of fourteenth-century form. The inscription is a common a talismanic formula. A similar silver brooch of annular form from Pen-y-Parc Farm, Llantarnam (Treasure Case 3.10) bore a religious inscription in crude Lombardic lettering: +IHESVS: INRI (TAR 2003, no. 410). A parallel fourteenth-century quatrefoil brooch from Beachamwell, Norfolk, bears the inscription IESVSNAZARENVS (TAR 2005-6, no. 338).
Talismanic brooches from Wales with 'garbled' inscriptions in imitation of talismanic formulae include a copper-alloy annular brooch from Dryslwyn Castle, Carmarthenshire (Redknap 1994, no. 27, fig. 14)..
form. The silver frame is of flattened rectangular cross-section. The back face is plain; the front face bears the inscription in raised Lombardic letters within countersunk panels:
AVE MARIA .
The plain pin with oval cross-section has a small transverse bar at the junction of the shaft with the wrap-around head.
Maximum external frame width 20.02mm; maximum external frame thickness 1.1mm. Pin length 10.3mm (tip of point missing). The brooch weight is 2.11g.
n terms of size and design, the brooch is of fourteenth-century form. The inscription is a common a talismanic formula. A similar silver brooch of annular form from Pen-y-Parc Farm, Llantarnam (Treasure Case 3.10) bore a religious inscription in crude Lombardic lettering: +IHESVS: INRI (TAR 2003, no. 410). A parallel fourteenth-century quatrefoil brooch from Beachamwell, Norfolk, bears the inscription IESVSNAZARENVS (TAR 2005-6, no. 338).
Talismanic brooches from Wales with 'garbled' inscriptions in imitation of talismanic formulae include a copper-alloy annular brooch from Dryslwyn Castle, Carmarthenshire (Redknap 1994, no. 27, fig. 14)..
References
Egan, G. 1991, 'Brooches', in G. Egan and F. Pritchard, Dress Accessories c.1150-c.1450. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3, 247-71.
Redknap, M. 1994, 'Some medieval brooches, pendants and moulds from Wales: a short survey', Archaeologia Cambrensis CXLIII, 92-138.
TAR 2003, Treasure Annual Report 2003 (London, DCMS).
TAR 2005-6, Treasure Annual Report 2005-6 (London, DCMS).
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