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Description: | Probably a fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman dragonesque brooch. Less than one half of the brooch remains with both a full half and the terminal of this half lost from old breaks. The remaining fragment is 27.4mm long 3.5mm thick and is a semi circular curve; 9.7mm wide at one end tapering to 5.3mm wide where there is a tranverse groove then widening again to 6.0mm. There are two areas of red enamel remaining. One starts 9.6mm above the groove; the recessed area holding the enamel starts at one side of the brooch and gradual widens in a curve until it is 60% of the width at the break. The other starts 1.3mm below the grrove and similarly curves outwards from one side until it takes up 75% of the width at the break.
The fragment weighs 3.3 grams.
Bayley and Butcher identify the dragonesque brooch as a development in British made plate brooches (2004. p 171). They note that the distribution is mainly in Britain, with a marked concentration in the North, where they were presumably made (p172). Based on a review of literature, Worrell (unpublished, 2007) dates Dragonesque brooches to AD 75-175. | Subjects: | Dragonesque | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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