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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy ?tinned/ ?silvered Hod Hill brooch without side lugs, missing most of its pin. The wings are tubular and rolled forwards and presumable the axis bar is corroded in place. The top of the pin and 8mm of its shank survive. The bow curves outwards below the wings, with a horizontal moulding and then four vertical mouldings, each decorated with transverse incised lines and the area between the inner two covered in silvering/ tinning. Below this are two more horizontal ribs from which the flat, kite-shaped leg extends : its two longer sides flaring outwards from the horizontal ribs, turning back in after 13mm for a further 8mm to the foot (width at this point -5mm- same as beneath horizontal ribs), which consists of two horizontal ribs, the lower of which is rather more a 2mm thick moulding and also silvered. The deocration on the surface of the leg appears to be four lines of punched dots radiating from beneath the two ribs, the outer two of which follow the shape of the foot while the other two drop down, though not particularly vertically. A further curved (?intentionally) vaguely horizontal line of punched dots lies above the foot. The leg is also silvered. THe catchplate on the reverse is complete except for a little of its curl, which is broken. Length 53mm, wingspan 9mm. 1st century AD. Cf Hattatt 1499 & 855.
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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