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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, missing pin and with some damage to projecting areas. The pin was held (presumably hinged) on a short bar held between two pierced lugs, 2 mm apart. The bow is hollw backed, rounded and tapers in towards both the head and the foot. At the head there is a transverse bar over the pin lugs, both terminals of which are badly abraded; projecting forwards is a bovine head, again abraded, with a rather triangular outline and deep set circular eyes. At the foot the bow end curves up and back and joins the main bow with a terminal in the form of a water bird head with a large duck/swan type bill and deep eyes similar to the other head. At the centre of the bow there is an incised decorative curvilinear motif composed of arcs and circles. Length 37mm, surviving width 13mm mid-bow thickness 6mm. This is definitely Iron Age in general form but nothing closely comparable found in Hull and Hawkes 1987. Although the incised decoration would fit in a British context the use of animal heads is more like Continental material (eg Megaw & Megaw Celtic Art 1989, pp84-88, and a sketch in Hattatt 1989p.139 for duck heads), much of it quite early La Tene in date. Further inforamation was sought from the BM and Ralph Jackson has examined this object, he believes that it is unique, no known parallel exists, and performed a dual function of both a brooch and a cosmetic mortar. Perhaps indicating that its owner wanted to advertise the fact that s/he used cosmetic mortars by in fact wearing one. It has been dated to the first century BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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