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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, one side lug and part of the catchplate is missing. The brooch has been bent completely in half with the remaining side lug bent inside, possibly deliberately.
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. Below the head the bow narrows then widens into a flat strip which continues to widen gradually (from 12.6mm wide by 0.8mm thick at the head to 17.3mm by 1.2mm at the widest point). The bow is decorated with a transverse collar at the top from which three raised strips with grooves between run down the lengh of the strip before terminating in a shoulder about half way down, these raised strips are flanked by parallel short strips at the widest point.
Below the shoulder the bow narrows abruptly to 6.8 mm wide and then tapers gradually to the foot where it is 2.3mm wide; just below the shoulder is a raised collar. There is one remaining projecting knops at the side of the shoulder it is bent inside but appears to have a collar and terminal lobed knop. The sides are so worn that the break where the knop on the other sholder was lost, and any other breaks are indistinguishable. 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 28.2mm long and 5.6mm thick in it's current bent shape and weighs 3.27 grams. | 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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