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Description: | A cast copper alloy T-shaped Roman brooch of 1st or 2nd century AD date. The brooch measures 48mm in length and weighs 6.48g. The cylindrical wings measure 24.1mm in length and 4.4mm in diameter. They conceal the copper alloy axis bar for the missing hinged pin. The axis bar is visible within the central notch which would have accommodated the pin. The wings are decorated with two parallel vertical incised lines on the external face of each end and two parallel slightly diagonal lines which frame the bow. The bow narrows to less than a millimetre at the foot. The thicker part of the bow is decorated with two adjacent vertical linear ridges. Behind this is the flat triangular catchplate. There are traces of silvering or tinning on parts of the brooch's surface. Similar brooches in Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue' include nos. 906, from Badbury Rings, Dorset and 907, from East Anglia (2000, p. 302, fig. 161).
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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