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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Thealby Mine brooch dating from the Roman period. Length: 63.9mm; width: 22.9mm; depth: 17.8mm; mass: 14.9g. The brooch has a large but incomplete loop cast in one with the head. There is a short crossbar. The copper alloy axis-bar is secured within the ends of the wings of the crossbar. There is a vertical slot behind the head which would have secured the (hinged) pin, which is missing. The bow is arched and tapers to a moulded foot-knob. On the reverse of the bow there is a catch-plate, with a largely complete pin rest.The head is decorated with a V-shaped design of wavy lines (for "wavy" lines see Fox, 1958, design 87, figure 83), and there is a row of very short vertical ribs decorating the base of the headloop. There is a raised vertical rib with a groove on the end of the front of each wing. There is also a moulded plate on the sides of the head, adjoining the wings. The brooch has a well-developed smooth green patina with a few small areas where the surface has been lost and is more pitted. In her "Roman Brooch Timeline", Worrell dates Thealby Mine brooches to AD AD100-AD200.
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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