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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman Hod Hill type brooch, missing its pin, lower bow and catchplate. Traces of tinning are apparent on twin-ribbed area below the head. It measures 22mm in length and weighs 2.03g.
The wings curl forward onto the top of the head and are 13.5mm in width. It is unclear whether the axis bar remains in each half of the wings. Below the wings the head narrows before the twin moulding, the upper of which is the wider (12.4mm). Below the lower (9.3mm) the bow extends (7.2mm wide, 1.2mm thick). It is decorated at the centre with two deep longitudinal grooves either side of a narrow central rib. At the very worn and ancient break, the width of the bow is 5.6mm (the thickness is the same).
The narrow bow may suugest the brooch is of the openwork type, or possibly had lower side lugs.
1st century in date. | Subjects: | Hod Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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