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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings, in profile 'C shaped with an off-set tube. The tube has a horizontal gap where two plates are curled and meet each other to form the tube of the wings. The centre of the tube has a vertical slot through which the iron axis bar is visible. The hinged pin is missing. At the apex of the bow head there is an integral lug which originally would have formed a loop. The bow head is hump-like in profile. The junction of the bow head and bow is decorated with a high-relief oval platform which is the headstud. The bow is a sub- elongated oval in plan and tapers to a bulbous foot. In section the bow is a slender sub-rectangle. The surface of the bow is decorated with a central column of lozenge cells bordered either side by triangular cells. On the reverse of the bow and foot only a fragment of the catchplate remains. The surface is abraded and has an incomplete dark brown patina. It measures 36.46mm long, 22.91mm wide and weighs 7.9g. The style of decoration and shape of the bow head suggests the brooch is a Headstud type which has a hinged pin. Snape (Snape, M. 1993 Roman Brooches From North Britain: A Classification and a Catalogue of Brooches From Stanegate B.A.R. British Series 235 p. 15) classifies this type of brooch as 3.1Di. Worrell (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter) dates these types of brooches to c. 75-200 AD.
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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