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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs). However, this is still an interesting example with elaborate leg. At the head is the open cylinder (W.: 11.35mm) with axis bar extant in one half; most of the other half has been lost and, duly, the remainder of the axis bar. As a result the pin is also missing. Orange staining, particularly on the upper surface of the head, testifies to the iron composition of the bar. Below the open cylinder the head incurves to a width of 6.6mm. The main body of the brooch is trapezoidal in shape with a pair of knobs, one either side, lower. The body expands from a width of 7.2mm at the head end, to a maximum width of 19.8mm, measuring across the knobs. Thereafter it decreases to a width of 10.0mm. It is decorated by three longitudinal grooves decorating the main field; these latter continue into the side knobs. The central groove is much wider than those that flank it. The body retains a large amount of the tinning which would have covered the whole of the upper surface; other obvious traces survive on the leg and on the side knobs. Below the body the leg incurves to 6.0mm before widening to a transverse ridge 7.05mm wide. This incurving to ridges occurs again twice more creating a elaborate leg on which the central ridge of the three is decorated with fine longitudinal incisions. The brooch terminates in a foot knob, 4.1mm wide, divided from the leg by a transverse ridge. The lower surface is undecorated and features an abraded sub-triangular catchplate, 14.0mm in length. In profile the brooch is a shallow S-shape. Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type.
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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