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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Hod Hill brooch of the first century (AD 43 ? AD 75). Overall length 34.8mm, width 17mm and maximum thickness 4.1mm. Weight 5.51g.
Part of the head, the pin mechanism, the lower part of the bow and the catch-plate are missing. All the breaks are old. The flat head has a maximum width of 17mm. On the front side of the head there is a minor horizontal rib situated mid-way between the top and the bottom of the surviving part. The top of the head has a ragged break, and prior to this damage, the top edge would have been rolled in a forwards direction, forming an open cylinder to accommodate an axis bar for the hinged pin (now missing). There is a deposit of iron corrosion on the front of the head, indicating perhaps, that the axis bar and the pin were made of iron. As viewed from the side, the bow curves gently. It is convex at the front, flat at the rear and tapers from the top towards the bottom, ending in an abraded break. At the top, it has a width of 14mm and at the bottom the width is about 6mm. The front of the bow has four equally spaced horizontal mouldings. The three upper moulding are more prominent than the lower moulding.
A patina has not survived and the metal is a reddish purple colour. There are small areas of bright green corrosion products on the front and rear. | 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
75 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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