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Description: | Copper-alloy object. Probable plate brooch of Roman date. Object is sub-triangular in shape and is widest towards the top. It is incomplete, the upper half having been broken off. It is likely that it was originally a symmetrical lozenge shape. What would have been the centre of the brooch is decorated by a slighlty raised horizontal frieze, with a trapezoidal area above and below. The frieze is split into three panels by two pairs of indented vertical lines. The two outer panels are decorated with a simple pattern consisting of a flower made up of four indented petals. The central panel has two pairs of short horizontal lines, one pair above the other. The trapezoidal areas are decorated by means of a faint repeating pattern of vertical indented lines. The portion of the brooch above the upper trapezoidal area is missing. On the lower half of the brooch it is separated from the lower body by a deep horizontal indented line. The lower body is triangular, tapering sharply to a point at the foot. The foot is slightly upturned, probably as a result of post-depositional damage. It is separated from the body by a narrow raised horizontal ridge. The brooch reverse is plain. It is slighlty concave across the centre and there is the remnant of a catchplate at the bottom. The piece measures 24.8mm high by up to 25.1mm wide and 1.5mm thick. Weight = 3.62g.
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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