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Description: | Complete Roman copper alloy European P-shaped brooch with returned foot, 3rd century. Iron spring and pin, two coils on one side and three on the other, internal chord, copper alloy axis bar with decorative knobs at the end. Projecting knop and one (or two) raised ridges at the head of the bow, seven ridges at the middle of the bow where the foot returns to meet the bow, and two ridges at the bottom of the bow. Length 38.40mm, width (wings) 14.22mm, width (top of bow) 5.77mm, width (foot) 1.80mm, thickness 15.28mm, weight 5.64g.
Hattatt 1985 ('Iron Age and Roman Brooches') notes that such brooches' ancestry goes back to La Tene II type brooches (although the foot is returned to the rear instead of to the front), and that they are the precursor to Crossbow and then Anglo Saxon Long brooches. He dates them to the first half of the 3rd century AD, and mentions just four from Britain - three from Chester and one from St Albans. | 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: | 200
300 | 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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