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Description: | Enormous dolphin brooch, complete with hinged AE pin which is now bent. The wings look as if they were cast open on the reverse, with the AE axis bar then inserted and two extra pieces of metal brazed on to hold the pin in place. There are two longitudinal seams and on the reverse of one wing this piece of metal is missing. The wings are each decorated with a broad moulding and a broad flute. The pin has a stop projection on the solid loop and still hinges. The bow has a moulding beneath its junction with the head, as if it was designed to look separately made and brazed on, and is decorated with a slim moulding down each side and three grooves down the centre. These all run down to a pointed foot with a well-preserved solid catchplate on the reverse. Lots of iron staining. Length 72 mm. 1st century AD. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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