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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch, now in two halves. The brooch is heavily corroded and damaged and cracked due to drying out. One wing is mostly missing, but the other, despite being heavily corroded, appears to be cylindrical. There is a slot at the centre of the cylindrical wings and they appear to hold a copper alloy shaft, both these elements suggesting that the pin mechanism was hinged. The pin shaft is entirely missing. Behind the head of the brooch is a raised, broad knop, which may be the remains of the base of an upstanding chain loop. The bow of the brooch is broad and gently humps. It is broken half way along, and the lower portion of the brooch exists as a separate portion. The bow gently tapers to a wide foot with forward facing, solid foot knob. The bow may have been decorated with a pair of raised lines that continue along its length, though this is not absolutely clear due to the state of the brooch. The solid catchplate is complete with its curl. The heavily abraded brooch is now bright green in colour due to corrosion. When the two halves are combined the brooch is 42.16mm long. It is 17.02mm wide across the wings, 12.48mm wide across the top of the bow, and 5.12mm thick. The combined weight of both halves is 9.79g. The possible chain loop, hinged mechanism and foot knob suggest that this belongs to the family of T-shaped brooches. It dates from the middle of the first century AD to the 2nd century. The range of T-shaped brooches can be seen in Hattat, 1985, Iron Age and Roman Brooches figures 37-41. | 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: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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