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Description: | A nearly complete cast copper alloy Romano-British headstud brooch with inlaid enamel decoration. The foot is a flat disc, with a smaller collar above it attaching it to the bow. Behind the foot, and the bottom half of the bow was the catchplate, now broken. The bow is rectangular in section. At the bottom are 2 transverse grooves. Above these the front of the bow is decorated with 3 cells for enamel inlay. The bottom one of these is a very elongated triangle, the 2 above are smaller rectangles. The bottom and top cells have the remains of red enamel, but all the enamel has gone from the central cell. Above these panels the bow bends sharply backwards, and there is an integral headstud on the bow. This is a raised circular panel, quartered to create 4 internal wedge-shaped cells, presumably for enamel though none remains. The head of the brooch has 2 wings which are stepped to create narrow vertical panels. Behind the head is the pin mechansim, a copper alloy axis bar running through the head and the copper alloy pin emerging from a central notch. Above the head is an integral suspension loop.
There is a similar but plainer (no enemalling) example in Hattatt (1982) p.77 fig.27a no.35). | 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: | 150
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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