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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Romano-British zoomorphic plate brooch. In plan, the brooch is in the form of a horse in spirited attitude. There are linear grooves representing hair on the tail and mane. And there are three recessed cells on the body of the horse. The cell above the hind leg is broadly comma shaped. The cell above the front leg is in sub-crescent shaped, with one flat terminal. The cell on the middle portion of the horse is broadly triangular. No enamel is visible, although there is some soil within the cells and the body of the horse. It is unclear if these cells were originally enamelled. The reverse of the brooch is flat with a double lug holding the remains of the spring mechanism on the hindquarters of the horse, and the catch-plate with curved pin-rest above the front leg. The brooch retains traces of a white metal coating.The head of the horse is broken and the brooch is slightly bent. It a well developed green patina, and the break on the head does not appear recent. The brooch,however, is in good overall condition. The brooch is 33.3mm long, 26.2mm wide and 1.7mm thick excluding the pin mechanism. The brooch has a mass of 4.01g.The brooch is very similar to the Hull type T205 brooch illustrated in "Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection" (Bayley and Butcher, 2004, figure 150). Bayley and Butcher, ibid. p 174 suggest that the type appears to be one of a number of British products with enamel in separate cells, on the basis of the rarity elsewhere and the use of the short spring between two lugs which is more common on British brooches.In terms of dating, an example of the Hull T205 type brooch was found at Great Dunmow, Essex in a deposit dated to around AD 200 (see Bayley and Butcher, ibid.). In her brooch timeline Worrell dates the broadly similar anthropomorphic (hare) brooch to AD100-200. It is likely therefore that the brooch described here dates from circa 100AD-200AD.
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