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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs). The head is missing, along with around half of the main body of the brooch and one of the side knobs. As a result the pin is also missing. The main body of the brooch is trapezoidal in shape with a pair of knobs, one either side, lower. It expands from a width of 6.8mm at the break, to a maximum width of 14.25mm, measuring across the surviving knobbed elements. Thereafter it decreases to a width of 7.25mm. The main field is decorated by a pair of wide longitudinal grooves which create three ridges. Below the main body the 'leg' incurves to a waist, 4.5mm wide. The leg is sub-triangular in shape; after the incurving it widens to 6.7mm before tapering to 2.5mm at the foot. The foot is slightly knobbed, and wider at 3.6mm. It is divided from the leg by a transverse ridge. The leg retains a large amount of the tinning which would have covered the whole of the upper surface; other obvious traces survive on the groove of the extant side knob. The lower surface is undecorated and features an abraded sub-triangular catchplate, 19.5mm in length, covering the length of leg and foot knob. In profile the brooch is a shallow S-shape. Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type. | Subjects: | Class B Hod Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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