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Description: | A hinged T-Shaped Roman brooch, 1st to 2nd Century AD. See Bayley and Butcher 2004 (Roman Brooches in Britain, page 95, fig 225, but this example is enamelled). The wings are semicircular in section with the flat plane facing forward. The front of the wings are decorated at both ends with a single vertical groove flanked by a narrow vertical band on each side. The vertical band has zig-zag decoration. The reverse of the wings were rolled round a copper alloy? axis bar and the seam is visible. The pin is missing. The crest is flat sectioned and orientated from front to back. It has the remains of a perforation with the top half missing. Below the perforation there is a groove in the crest which then curves to meet the bow. The bow curves away slightly from the wings and then back. It is widest at the top and tapers gradually downwards to where it terminates at a forward facing foot knob. The bow front is decorated with a single central line of vertical lozenges, flanked by a small ridge on each side. There is a partial triangular catch plate on the reverse of the bow foot.Length 38.02mm, width at wings 29.33, width of bow crest 9.27mm, width of bow base 4.34. Foot knob diameter 5.66mm. Thickness 12.62mm. Weight 9.74 g.
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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