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Description: | A copper alloy Thealby Mine type Roman brooch dating from AD 100 ?? AD 200. The brooch is 33.8mm long, 23mm wide and 24.4mm thick. The bow is bent so that the brooch is more bent than it should be. The pin is missing. The wings of the brooch are rectangular and are decorated with four vertical lines on each wing, alternately plain and beaded. There is a broken fixed head loop. The bow is slightly humped and tapers towards the foot. It is decorated with three raised bands of beading which run along the bow, with traces of red enamel in the gullies between them. The bands join at the top in a point. The foot is discoid with a band of beading above. Most of the catchplate is missing. There is a tubular housing for the pin axis bar on the reverse of the wings and a slot for the pin which is not central. This type of brooch is discussed briefly on page 16 of Snape??s ??Roman Brooches from North Britain?? (1993). | Subjects: | Thealby Mine | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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