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designs on the brooch are nonidentical, and are mixed with interlacing and ivy-scrolls. The second, larger brooch is a flat, silver disc brooch plainly decorated with abstract motifs. The brooch design contains four intersecting circles with nine small bosses (one missing) equidistant to each other
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