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Description: | Roman copper alloy Hod Hill type brooch dated c.43-70 AD.
The bow is complete but the majority of the head, the pin and part of the catchplate is missing. The head was formed of a rolled over sheet tube which held the hinge to which the pin was attached, only part of one side of this and part of the central slot for the pin survives. From the head the bow curves through a gentle 90 degree curve to form a convex curved bow before curving in a slightly concave shape down to the foot. The foot terminates with an integral circular flat knop.
Below the head the bow widens into a flat strip which continues to widen gradually (from 8.5mm wide by 1.8mm thick at the head to 11.3mm by 1.6mm at the widest point). The bow is decorated with a transverse groove from which three broad grooves run down the lengh of the strip before terminating in a shoulder about half way down.
Below the shoulder the bow narrows abruptly to 6.6 mm wide and then tapers gradually to the foot where it is 1.7mm wide; just below the shoulder is a raised trangle with a flat base and top point attached to the wider strip of the bow. There are rectangular projecting knops to either side of the shoulder, both appear to be broken but the longest is 4.1mm long. On one side the edge is broken just below the head but on the other it is complete with no evidence of other knops. The catchplate is long, running the entire lengh of the tapering part of the bow/foot but is incomplete with no curved over slot.
The brooch is 44.8mm long and weighs 3.28 grams.
Parallels can be seen in Hattatt (2000) No 314 on page 322, Fig 181, is almost identical but with a more complete head and side lugs. | Subjects: | Hod Hill | 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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