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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman equal-ended plate brooch with traces of a ?green enamel and missing its iron pin.
The brooch is 47mm in length and max.25mm wide at the central rhomboid.
At the center of the rhomboid is a circle, 8mm in diameter. It is missing its (probably enamel) setting. Around the outside edge of the rhomboid is a groove, on the outer side of which appear to be a line of punches.
Extending from a collar on two facing points of the rhomboid, from below the level of the rhomboid, is a long neck and head. Each head has a grooved X across it, at the bottom forming a squat snout and to either side a ring-and-dot punch for eyes. The nose may have been longer and now broken, as in the Hattatt examples (Brooches of Antiquity, Oxbow, 1987, fig.64). The Codford example looks rather like two turtle heads.
On the reverse of the brooch, behind the neck and head, is the mecnaism. A catchplate (missing some of its curl) and two lugs with an axis bar corroded into place between.
The brooch is ever-so-slightly bent in profile.
Weighs 5.83g. 2nd century AD. Cf Hattatt no.1099 from near Oxford. | Subjects: | Plate Equal-ended | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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