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Description: | Incomplete Roman cast copper alloy T-shaped brooch with enamel decoration and intact hinged pin. The head of the brooch is roughly rectangluar in shape and figure-of-eight shaped in section so that a groove runs lengthways along the upper and lower surfaces. The main T-bar of the head is decoarted with 11 inter-locking triangles of enamel which alternate blue & red. The upper bow of the brooch is worn but appears to have traces of a foliate design with moulding along the edges. The lower portion of the bow is now twisted and slightly distorted but the original blue & red enamel interlocking triangles (as observed on the T-Bar) can still be seen running lengthways in two parallel rows. Below this at the foot of the bow is further moulding and it is possible that the item terminated with a knop as the foot is possibly incomplete. The cast-in triangular catchplate is still present but is now distorted and twisted to the right of the bow.
Brooches of this type are tpically dated to the 1st-2nd Centuries.
Similar examples can be seen in Hattatt's, 'Visual Catalogue...Ancient Brooches', p.304, Fig.163. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burrill, Charlotte - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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