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Description: | A copper alloy Roman headstud brooch which is 31.5mm long, 24.8mm wide and 13.5mm thick. It has a tubular housing for the axis bar behind the wings and a slot for the hinged pin which is missing apart from the very top of it. The front of the wings are decorated with two vertical raised ribs on each. There is a projecting ridge at the top of the bow which is what the chord loop would have been held by on a sprung pin mechanism. The headstud itself is missing, with just an oval area on the bow and a circular rivet hole showing where it would have been. The bow is decorated with two vertical beaded bands which are corroded. The lower part of the bow and the foot are missing. Only the very top of the catchplate survives. The brooch has a dark green patina. Headstud brooches date from 75 ?? 200 AD (Worrell 2007 pers. Comm.) and similar examples can be seen in Snape (2003). | Subjects: | headstud | 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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