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Description: | Copper alloy Roman dolphin brooch with hinge mechanism. The brooch is bent in half, perhaps deliberately. The hinged pin is broken approximately one third of the way down and bent to one side. The wings are each decorated with a single barrel moulding. The bow is decorated with a central groove & at least one groove to either side of this. There are three transverse grooves across the base of the bow and an outward turned, rounded knop on the foot. The catchplate missing. Brown patina with small areas of light green. Some soil still adhering. Length (bent) 23.3mm, width (wings) 25.0mm, with (top of bow) 7.6mm, width (foot) 2.74mm, thickness (foot) 4.76mm, thickness (top of bow) 5.4mm, diameter (end of wings) c. 4.5mm, weight 7.67g. | 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: | 60
120 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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