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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped ??Wroxeter?? brooch. The wings/bow head is an inverted ??D?? shape which has an integral plate protruding from the upper edge. The plate is off-set has an abraded upper edge which probably originally had a perforation. The reverse of the bow head is hollow and has an integral lug at either side, with a circular perforation. The lugs originally would have held an axis bar on which the spring was coiled or the pin was hinged, all these mechanisms are now missing. The bow protrudes from the centre of the bow head and is rectangular in section and curved in profile. The upper surface of the bow is decorated with two parallel vertical cells each filled with traces of enamel. The bow is broken at the approximate mid point. This break is not too recent. The brooch has a well developed mid to dark brown coloured patina with a white alloy coating on the head plate. The brooch measures 28mm long and 13.16mm wide across the bow head. It weighs 5.3g.
These types of brooch can be considered to be a variation of the ??T?? shaped brooch. Hattatt (Hattat, R 1985 Iron Age and Roman Brooches Oxbow) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 401 and dates these type of brooches to the 1st to 2nd centuries. However, Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 169) illustrate similar brooches, the ??Wroxeter?? and ??Prestatyn?? type brooches and separate these from the ??T?? shaped examples. The recorded example is very similar to the ??Wroxeter?? example and these date to late 1st century to the 2nd century (Bayley and Butcher: p. 169). These type of brooches are found commonly in North Wales and the Midlands. | Subjects: | T-shape Wroxeter | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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