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Early Medieval copper alloy strip
Fragment of bronze strip ornamented with a running chevron pattern reserved against a background of Champleve enamel (marked by vertical hatching). The present colour of the enamel is green , but this may be the result of decay. While the left- hand end of the strip is clearly fractured, the right-hand end may be original. Running chevron patterns picked out in enamel may be found, for instance, on some Romano-British trumpet brooches; but this piece is clearly not from a brooch. It could wellbe from a bracelet, but I (Alcock) have found no good parallels.
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Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Notes: Cut XV, Layer 1. Context H H: Humus on back of bank, thin towards crest, deeper towards interior. Some shattered bone, some artefacts.