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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy brooch dating from the Roman period, possibly of sprung dolphin type. Length: 32.2mm; width: 26.9mm; depth: 11.8mm; mass: 4.9g.The brooch is T-shaped in plan. The bow has a humped, comma shaped profile and is broken at the bottom. The spring and pin are missing, which would have been held within the reverse of the crossbar by a hook, the stub of which remains on the head. The head is decorated with ribs and grooves, and there are a series of feint vertical ribs running down the front of the bow. The brooch has a well-developed green patina, but this has been lost on parts of the brooch, leaving a heavily pitted surface.In "Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection", Bayley and Butcher (2004, p157) state that the sprung dolphin brooch, "...had a very inefficient method of attaching the separate spring: it is only held by a hook projecting from the back of the head and consequently most examples have lost their spring." In her "Brooch Timeline", Worrell (2007) dates the sprung dolphin brooch to AD43-AD65.
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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