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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman T-shape brooch dating to around the early 2nd century AD. The brooch is missing its pin, but is otherwise in good condition, although it has been bent slightly in plan.The head features thick plano-convex wings with the plain flat face uppermost (max. Th.: 5.3mm). The wings largely obscure the axis bar around which the pin would have been hinged; traces of iron corrosion visible in profile centrally, as well as staining around the pin slot and beyond reveal the composition of the axis bar. Protruding from the front of the head is a circular chain loop (W.: 6.6mm, Th.: 1.8mm).The turn into the upper bow is through nearly ninety degrees. The upper bow is c. 7mm wide and the main field divided into two long cells each with three rectangles of enamel in. The enamelling is now alternate orange-red/green?, in a checkerboard pattern. Below is a double ridge, below which a double lobe marking the start of the leg.The leg is faceted such that it is of trapezoidal cross-section. A centre longitudinal groove is decorated with a fine zigzag pattern. The leg terminates in a ridge before a groove before the raised footknob. On the lower surface, the catchplate survives well and travels 28.2mm up the leg in total. It is located to one side of the leg and bends inwards such that the fold is aligned with the pin slot. The folded element has suffered minor abrasions.This brooch can be compared with an example illustrated in Bayley and Butcher (2004, 166; ref. T110A). This example has corroded to a mid-dark, dull grey-green patina 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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