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Description: | Cast copper alloy two-piece hinged dolphin brooch, T-shaped in plan and comma-shaped in profile. The bow is D-shaped in section and tapers towards the missing foot. The upper face of the bow has a moulded crest extending from the head and tapering towards the lower bow. This crest is defined by longitudinal grooves at either side on the bow. The solid cross-bar is circular in section and the wings also taper towards their terminals.
The surface of the brooch is very corroded and pitted so that any decoration is faint, but, along with the remains of the central crest and the grooves defining it, there is also a faint line running around the terminal of each wing, about 1 mm in from the end.
The iron pin is missing but there is some corrosion product remaining in the hinge slot between the wings. The catchplate is also missing.
Crummy (1983) illustrates a similar example on page 11, Fig.6, No.58, which (type) is dated to the Neronian or Flavian period c.AD 54-96.
Hattatt (2000) illustrates a similar example on page 299, Fig.158, No.890 which is dated to the 1st century AD. | 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
100 | 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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