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Description: | A Roman Colchester derivative brooch of double lug type. The spring is secured by passing the external chord and the axial bar through a lug with two perforations behind the head. The side wings are semi cylindrical. The forward hook of type 90 can still be seen in the crest which runs on a flat ridge down the head towards the bow, flanked by cavetto mouldings, and maybe decorated in various ways. Date range 50- 70 AD.
A small two-piece brooch 16.16mm, the bow is plain, with cavetto mouldings charactistic of the type there is a lug behind the head having two perforations where the axis bar passes through the lower perforation and the external cord. The spring has seven turns still remaining and with a small stub of the spring still in place. The wings are 16.24 mm wide and are semi cylindrical in section and are plain. There is a small crest on the head, which expands onto the upper bow where it converges with one of the side mouldings. . The lower portion of the bow and catch plate are missing.
L: 14.98 mm W of wings :16.31 W . bow 7.44 Max. bow thickness3.21 Wt :3.43 g
Similar to an example from Colchester (Crummy 1983 , no. 50 fig 6 ) | 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: | 43
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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