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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman Hod Hill brooch, dating to the 1st century, between AD 43 - 100 (length: 27mm; width at wings: 21mm; thickness: 4mm; weight: 5.82g).This Hod Hill brooch fragment can be classified as a Group 'a': 'the upper bow a distinct panel with side wings, often with lugs', as discussed by Bayley & Butcher (2004; page 70) (see bibliographical details below). At the top of the brooch, the incomplete bow/ head has been rolled back to form a cylindrical narrow tube (diameter: 4mm), which would have originally housed a probable iron axis bar and hinge mechanism in between a gap, although these features are no longer visible. In side profile, the bow is flat and gently arched with a tapering but wide 'neck' (length: 8.5mm) below two raised ridges across the brooch's width. The fragment then expands outwards to form an incomplete sub-rectangular panel/ platform (length: 11mm; width: 13mm; thickness: 2mm) with wings/ lugs to either side at the top of this feature. The panel/ platform has moulded decoration on the front comprising of two probable raised ridges running lengthwise to the left and right of the panel. The wings/ lugs (length: 3.5mm; width: 4mm; thickness: 2mm) to either side are flat in side-section with slightly rounded ends. There is a straight and ancient break approximately half way down this decorated panel. The back of the brooch is flat and undecorated with the hinge mechanism and pin now completely missing. Overall, the artefact is in a worn and corroded condition with a patchy dark green patina.Similar examples of Group 'a' Hod Hill brooches are illustrated in Bayley, J & Butcher, S, 2004, 'Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection', pages 70-72. Bayley & Butcher state (pages 152-3) that the 'general group known as Hod Hill in Britain is more numerous on the continent and has been exhaustively classified on the basis of the large collections available there....even so the British examples do not all finds close parallels in those catalogues. This may be simply because of the very great diversity in manufacture or because some were being made in Britain....There is little doubt that the Hod Hill group reached Britain in the conquest period....where numerous examples were found at Hod Hill itself (a Dorset hillfort) and in Claudian-Neronian contexts at Camulodunum (Colchester).'
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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