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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman dolphin brooch, missing its lower bow and pin. The wingspan is 21mm and its incomplete length is 25mm. It weighs 6.57g. The wings are C-shaped in section. An double-pierced rearward lug at the centre of the hollowed wings holds the thread and axis bar, and consequently six coils - the seventh is broken where the pin would have extended. To the front the wings have a single decorative groove flanking each end. The bow, which is circular in section, extends from the top of the bow and extends backwards into the lug. It is 4.5mm wide and does not narrow much to the break, where it is 3.5mm wide (in diameter). The break is recent-ish. the bow is decorated with a central rib and groove either side, ending 2.3mm before the break. Hattatt dates the double-pierced rearward lug to c.50-65 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
65 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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