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Description: | A damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age/Roman rosette brooch. The head features a characteristically cylindrical hood which is abraded, with losses. One half of the spring, consisting of three-and-a-half coils, survives in situ in the hood. The curve from head through to bow goes through about forty-five degrees, but the head is twisted. The bow has been struck on multiple occasions in the past. The bow is a plain rectangular strip, interrupted towards the foot by an oval 'disc'. The disc is abraded, cracked and bent. Its upper surface is decorated with four concentric raised rings (including a border). The foot emerges from the lower surface of the disc. It might be decorated with reeding in low relief on its upper surface. On the lower surface a thin central strip is all that remains of the catchplate. The brooch has corroded to its present red-brown colour with areas of lighter corrosion product.
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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