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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman hinged T-shaped brooch with a small fragment of the iron pin remaining attached to the remains of the copper alloy hinge within the tubular wings. Only one wing survives, and the there is a faint decorative groove around the end of the wing, about 3 mm away from the terminal. The head of the brooch has a central, vertical, moulded ridge between two oblique ribs which taper to meet at a point, forming a 'V' shape, 19 mm down the length of the bow. Underneath the V-shaped ribs, the bow is also raised and moulded into a 'V' shape, defined by two grooves, which run parallel to the outside edges of the tapering bow. The bow is triangular in section, where it has broken off, above the foot and catch plate, now missing.Hattatt (2000) illustrates similar examples on page 302, Fig.161, No.907, and on page 304, Fig.163, No.1520, which are dated from the 1st to the 2nd century AD.Bayley and Butcher (2004) illustrate a similar 'initial' T-shaped brooch on page 158, Fig.127, No.T104, which was found at Kingsdown Camp, Somerset, in a Flavian context, c.AD 69-96. They define this early type of T-shaped brooch as "usually hinged, not enamelled but sometimes with fine relief decoration, and lacking a headloop." (ibid, p.159)
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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