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Description: | This copper alloy fragment of Romano-British Dolphin brooch is 43.28mm long, 34.9mm wide across its wings, 6.23mm thick and weighs 18.61g. This brooch has been cast in one solid piece with a backward hook at the head of the bow to hold the spring in place. The spring is still held in place by the backward hook but the pin has broken off. With the bow uppermost, the left wing is truncated, whilst the right appears complete. Decoration consists of three moulded bands on each side wing, with a raised rib, with a further central groove, running the length of the remaining bow, and obviously would have run beyond when it was complete. The bow rises humplike from the top of the brooch, coming forward in a sweeping arc. This bow is incomplete, but it would have continued, diminishing in width towards the foot. Nothing of the foot or catch plate remains, though a small ‘tail’ junctioning backward,off from the bow suggests it was a perforated catch plate. All losses and breaks appear to have occurred in antiquity. The fragment has a dark green patina, lighter green on the spring coil, with very little corrosion. It dates to between AD45-60. See Hawkes & Hull,1947, Camulodunum, plate XCI, 43. | Subjects: | Dolphin | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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