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Description: | Roman brooch; large, fine, cast copper alloy crescent-type Aesica brooch with remains of silvering on the foot. These brooches are from the 1st century. The brooch is a composite, formed of two plates of copper alloy. One plate forms the wings, the circular boss at the centre of the brooch and the foot. The other plate forms the deeply-curving bow and is attached to the back plate by means of two circular copper alloy rivets, one in the centre of the wings and one in the centre of the circular boss. Both rivets can be seen on the back of the brooch. Much of the catchplate is present on the back of the foot of the brooch. The pin is missing, but would have been hinged. One end of the wings retains the pierced lug which would have held the pin bar and the complementary lug is partially present at the other end of the wings. In the centre of the top of the wings, the remains of a loop for the pin bar can also be seen.The front of the brooch has extensive moulded decoration. There are three transverse ridges at each end of the wings. Between the two outer ridges, at either end, there is a raised band with incised chevrons, giving a rope-like appearance. A similar rope-like band runs down the length of the bow, and is repeated along the centre of the foot plate. The bow also has a panel to either side of the central ridge, which expands towards the apex of the bow, then tapers again towards the bottom of the bow. At the apex of the bow there is a sub-spherical knop extending on either side. The foot is fantailed and decorated with incised lines forming panels to either side of the central rope-like ridge. There are traces of silvering or tinning in the outer panels of the foot, the bow panels, the centre of the wings and the rope-like bands across the brooch. Length 43.1mm, width 27.9mm, thickness (at bow) 22.1mm, weight 24.67gRef: Hattatt, page 311 (figure 170), especially brooches 289 and 798
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