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Description: | A cast copper alloy 1st century AD, Hod Hill derivative brooch, with no side lugs. The head, bow and foot are complete with the hinge, pin and part of the catchplate missing.
The head is flat with widened wings to either side of a pin hinge slot. The wings are rolled over, creating a tube to hold the hinge spindle; these tubes are now full of iron corrosion suggesting the spindle was iron. The head is 11.8mm wide. The top section of the bow is roughly rectangular in shape (although slightly tapering) and has three well defined vertical ridges running down the front surface; the ridges have regular incised transverse lines cutting them all down their lengh. The sides of this rectangular section are complete with no evidence of side knops. It is 18.2mm long, 7.7mm wide and 1.8mm thick.
Below this section the bow narrows into a short waist below which is a raised collar. Below the collar the foot tapers to a raised rectangular terminal knop. The solid triangular catchplate runs along the lengh of the foot. The curved catch of the catchplate is missing, it is 5.7mm wide at the widest point. The surface of the metal is slightly pitted and corroded. The brooch is now a mid greyish-green colour. It is 43.7mm long and weighs 2.31 grams. The angle of the head and catchplate suggest it was originally more curved in profile.
This type of brooch dates from c. 43-70 AD. This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt (2000) e.g. p.220, no.49. | 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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