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Description: | Cast copper alloy T-shaped brooch with head plate, length 52mm, width 34mm, thickness 8mm, weight 24.54g. The pin would have been attached in the same manor as a Polden Hill brooch with semicircular, concave cross section wings that has a backward facing lug at either end there is a hole in the centre of each of the lugs would hold that spring support bar, there is the remains of a heavily corroded iron pin still in place at one end. The top of the head has large integral rectangular plate with rope work decoration running along the top and a moulded loop projecting from the centre at the top. There is a slight lip on the bottom edge of wing terminal. Halfway down that length of the bow is a moulded waist with a flat back. The moulding consists of two bands that have a pointed forward edge, above and below is a narrowed section, all of which is flaked be another band with a pointed forward edge. Belo this is only a fragmentary remains of the rest of the leg, at the back of which is the remains of the catch plate The overall condition is very poor, most of the surface has been badly effected by corrosion resulting in a patchy light green colour with mid green patches. This artefact dates to the second century AD.
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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