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Description: | Roman brooch; fragment of cast copper alloy Hod Hill brooch with middle side lugs, dating to the 1st century AD. The fragment consists of the central part of the bow only, the catchplate, pin and pin mechanism being missing. The bow expands at the middle to a roughly oval plate with a small, circular side lug extending to the left. The lug on the right is missing but would presumably have been symmetrical. The brooch has moulded decoration in the form of a horizontal ridge above the central plate and 3 similar ridges below. The central plate itself is decorated with 2 vertical ridges.Length (incomplete) 30.13mm, width across central plate, including single remaining side lug 18.98mm, thickness as curved 7.36mm, thickness across central plate 2.4mm, weight 2.80g.Ref: Hattatt, page 322 (fig. 181), especially brooches 53, 316 and 317
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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