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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy T-shaped brooch of Roman date (AD 43 -AD 200). Length: 29.0mm; width: 36.2mm. Weight: 9.34g.The lower part of the bow, including the catch-plate, and the pin are missing due to old breaks. The wings, which have an overall width 36.2mm, are cylindrical (or tubular) and fully enclose a complete copper alloy axis bar. Each wing tapers slightly from the bow towards the end where there is a characteristic decorative groove. These grooves are barely visible due to corrosion and possibly wear. The groove is only visible at the front and does not seem to have extended to the rear. At the rear of the wings, at the centre, there is a slot for the hinged pin. A small fragment of the copper alloy pin survives within the slot. Where the bow joins the wings at the top there is a distinct transverse groove forming a division between the two elements. In plan, the bow is sub triangular in shape and tapers in two stages from the wings towards the old transverse and abraded break. At the top the bow has a width of 15.6mm and it tapers to point about half way along its surviving length where the width is 10.2mm. At this point it narrows and further tapers to the old break where the width is about 3.0mm. The bow is flat at the rear. At the front the bow is decorated with two longitudinal linear ribs which converge to form a single entity and terminate just above the old break.The brooch is corroded as well has having a light green patina.This brooch is very similar to one recorded from Tytherington Parish, Avon. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: GLO-C8F818. Another brooch, from East Anglia, is also similar in some respects to this Isle of Wight example (Hattatt 1987, 104, fig. 37, ref. 907). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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