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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman plate bird brooch. The flat zoomorphic brooch is in the form of a strutting cockerel. The crescent-shaped body is divided into two enamel fields, the lower is green and the upper one is missing. Projecting above the body is a long straight neck with an incomplete head. The small circular eye is just visible but both the beak and comb are incomplete. Both the tail and the foot are also incomplete. On the reverse of the plate are two lugs housing an incomplete spring mechanism of two turns, though the pin is missing. Opposite the spring are the remains of a catchplate with a length of 6.4mm. The surviving length of the brooch is 23.1mm, the width is 21.7mm, the thickness of the plate is 1.9mmand the weight is 2.15g.
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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