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Description: | Copper alloy Roman headstud brooch dating to the late 1st - 2nd century. The brooch has a hinged pin mechanism but only the top part of the pin survives. There is no surviving headloop on the brooch but it appears that this would have been loose and has broken off. The brooch therefore fits into Painter & Sax?s Typology (1970) in category ?c?; these brooches were in use before AD 90. On this example the casing has been cast as a skeuomorphic spring of 8 turns. Snape (1993) suggests that this implies that the spring was in use earlier than the hinge pin but was retained after the hinge was introduced.
The brooch is heavily enamelled, some of which still survives. The wings are moulded with longitudinal grooves and at the end of each is a panel of enamelled lozenge decoration; the enamel is red. The ?stud? survives as an open perforation and looks to have contained a separate stud although this is not intact. The perforation is wide at the top and narrows to the back of the bow; it goes right through to the back.
Down the bow there is a panel of lozenge shaped enamelled decoration with red cells down the edges and white lozenges down the centre. The foot has a band of moulded decoration above the end and is hollow. The catchplate on the brooch survives intact.
The brooch measures 46.72mm in length, 20.62mm in width and weighs 13.32g. A similar parallel can be seen in Hattatt?s visual catalogue, Fig. 191, Nos. 424 & 425. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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