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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy Hod Hill type brooch, with upper side lugs (very worn and incomplete) and missing part of the head, hinge mechanism and pin. It measures 36.93mm and weighs 2.74g.
The wings (13.47mm wide) would have curled forward onto the head to hold the axis bar in place, but are now missing (as is the axis bar). Dark brown staining suggests the axis bar was probably iron.
The brooch is slightly squashed, but the bow is apparantly quite straight. It is decorated with three vertical ribs, with a bulge either side at the top of the bow - representing the worn knobs.
A transverse rib separates the lower bow from the foot, which was probably triangular with a projecting knob but is now worn and rather more oval in shape. It is situated a littl further back than the bow. The catchplate to the rear is very worn and incomplete.
Hod Hill brooches are known from post-conquest depositions and the type is better known on the continent. It is likely they went out of use c.70 AD (Bayley & Butcher 2004, p.153). | Subjects: | Hod Hill - with side lugs - | 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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