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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British Dolphin brooch. The wings of the brooch are complete and semicylindrical. Each wing is decorated with a single, divergent, diagonally incised line approximately half way along its length. At the head of the brooch is a simple, backward facing hook, now truncated that would have held the spring. The spring coil and pin shaft is entirely missing. The bow of the brooch humps at the head and then turns downwards giving the brooch a comma shaped profile. The bow is subtriangular in section and tapers. It is truncated just before the foot. The bow is decorated with a raised mid rib line, flanked by an incised line to either side. All of these lines seem to run the entire length of the brooch. As the brooch is truncated, nothing of the catchplate survives. Breaks on the brooch are worn smooth and similarly patinated, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The original surface of the brooch is abraded with a mid green patina with patches of lighter green. The brooch is 27.46mm long, 25.54mm wide at the wings, 7.88mm wide at the top of the hump, 3.78mm thick at the centre of the bow and weighs 6.44g. Examples of Dolphin brooches with a simple backward hook can be seen in Hattatt, 1985, figure 30. They date from AD40-55.
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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