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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch of the 'Applied Hook' type, missing the lower bow and catchplate, part of the upper bow, head and pin, and part of the applied hook. It weighs 3.11g and measures 30.89mm in length.
The bow is 9.13mm wide with parallel sides (although one side is damaged towards the lower bow). A central 1.8mm wide groove is filled with zig-zag decoration below the applied hook. Either edge of the bow is flanked by a shallow step. The central band of decoration appears to peter out underneath the incomplete applied hook (which is 21.30mm in length), roughly at the centre of the bow and just as it starts to curve towards the head (now missing).
The applied hook at this point is rectangular in shape and c.7.2x6.4mm. It is riveted in place with a domed rivet 3.04mm in diameter. It is narrower beyond the rectangular part (3.53mm), widening over c.13mm to 5.37mm at the recent-ish break. Visible on the upper bow, either side of the applied hook, is a band of zig-zag decoration inside a wide groove. Both bands form the arms of a V, beginning underneath the applied hook and eventually flanking the edges of the bow.
The break at the top of the bow (9.97mm wide) is old and K-shaped in section. The underside of the bow shows a much more even and well-preserved shiny brown patina than that displayed on the front, which is corroded and worn.
Applied Hook brooches are thought to be an early British development, and concentrate in the south west, in Dorset and Somerset in particular. Bayley and Butcher comment the distinctive riveted plate (the applied hook) is a local invention (2004, p.157). The consistent features of these brooches is the applied plate simulating a hook, rather than the manner in which the pin was fixed or the attempt to give the appearance of a spring, as in this case (Mackreth 1991, 232). Cf. Wedlake 1958, 225 fig. 51 nos.11 and 11B, from excavations at Camerton, Somerset. This type of brooch dates to the first half of the first century. | Subjects: | T-shaped Applied Hook | 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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