Casgliadau Arlein

The upper part only of a crude hinged T-shaped brooch with lozenge shaped moulding at the waist. There is an imperforate tab at the head and some vertical moulding on the front of the cross bar. The plain upper bow, polygonal in cross section, is separated from the waist moulding by a transverse rib. The waist moulding comprised a series of mouldings describing, apparently a lozenge shape but there is no indication whether enamel was ever present. The brooch has some affinities with Nor'nour Type 12, crudely T-shaped brooched with a double triangle on the bow, represented in south-east Wales by examples from Caerwent and Whitton. But, unlike these, the upper bow is separated from the waist moulding by a transverse rib and the waist ornament itself is not encircled by the line of the bow.