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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy brooch of Aucissa type (Similar to Hattatt 43) The flat, 17mm wide head plate, is rolled under and over at the top to form a cylindrical housing for an iron axial bar. This housing is slotted centrally, right around its circumference, to accommodate a hinged pin. The pin is broken, an 11mm length remaining. Also a 2mm projection on the pin loop, set backwards at a right angle to the pin, survives - a stop that would have allowed the pin to be tensioned against the bow. Occasionally brooches of this type are inscribed upon the head plate with the name AVCISSA. This example is decorated upon the head plate with two narrow transverse bands of rope-like decoration. The high-arched tapering bow, 8-5mm wide and 2mm thick, is semi-circular in section and decorated along its entire length with a raised median band of the same rope-like decoration found on the head plate. Unfortunately much of this decoration is corroded, but a 12mm section survives near the foot. The plain foot, 20mm in length has an intact catchplate and an applied spherical terminal knob of copper alloy, 5mm in diameter. The terminal knob is made of copper alloy of a different composition to the rest of the brooch. | Subjects: | Aucissa | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hatt, Jeff | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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