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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy T-shaped brooch of Roman date (AD 70 - AD 150). Length: 15.1mm; width: 25.2mm and thickness of bow: 3.0mm. Weight: 3.78mm.The majority of the pin, the end of one wing and the lower part of the bow, including the catch-plate, are missing due to old breaks.The wings are tubular and fully enclose a copper alloy axis bar. Along the upper face of the wings there is a slight flattening throughout their length. The end of the intact wing has two characteristic grooves at the front but they do not extend around to the rear, unless they have been removed due to wear. The central slot contains the hinged part of the copper alloy pin (now missing). The surviving part of the bow is sub-rectangular in plan. At its junction with the wings the bow has a width of 9.0mm and at the break the width is 5.6mm. It is convex at the front and flat at the rear. In side view the bow arches forwards slightly.The front of the bow has moulded decoration. There is a central longitudinal rib that extends from the pin slot at the top to a point close to the break where the rib divides to form a triangular or lozenge shaped cell which is filled with crazed blue enamel. It is not possibly to determine the original shape of the cell precisely as the break has occurred through it transversely. The rib is tooled throughout its length with small horizontal punch marks. At either side of this rib there is a groove that starts level with the rib at the top, converges towards it and then flares out to the edge of the bow.This brooch has a light to mid-green matt patina and also has small areas composed of bright green and powdery copper alloy corrosion products.
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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