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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman wing-and-discbow or Aesica-variant type (see notes below) brooch, but a variant, with elements of T-shape brooches, namely the long wings. The brooch is corroded and pitted and the decorative moulding unclear apart from on the top of the head where, between the end of the bow and the beginning of the projection in to the wings either side, remains a raised curve, edged with an incised line, like two eye-brows. The bow has been flattened into a disc shape, but it is too corroded for any surface decoration to remain. There are four incised rings around the end of each wing. Both ends of the wings are damaged, exposing the central core. The iron pin is missing along with the catchplate and the bottom half of the bow and foot. The foot may have fanned out below the bow as in a similar example found at Marazion (CORN-82B305).
The length of what remains of the brooch is 29 mm; length of bow is 22 mm; width of bow is 19.4 mm; thickness of bow is 3.8 mm; width of restricted area of moulding is 9.4 mm; width of wings is 50.4 mm; diameter of wings is 7 mm. It weighs 21.11g.
AD 1st-2nd century | 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: | 50
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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