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Description: | A cast copper alloy Rosette late Iron Age to Roman brooch, dating from the 1st century AD. This brooch is similar to other examples as listed in Hattatt (2000), p308, Fig 167.
The head of the brooch is an open cylinder, enclosing the copper alloy spring. The head casing has been decorated with incised diagonal lines. The casing has worn open on the reverse revealing the spring, which appears to have eight turns. The spring is badly corroded. The badly bent pin survives in situ and appears to be complete.
The bow is highly arched and reeded. There are ten ribs running vertically down the bow. The hollow area on the reverse of the bow has some iron corrosion product surviving. One piece of the corroded iron is in the form of a loop, which could be part of a chain or similar fitting, used to keep the brooch in piece that has since corroded away. This corrosion has also stained the cylinder casing and the top of the disc.
The lower part of the bow is connected to a circular disc; this disc has been cast integrally to the main part of the brooch. It is decorated firstly by the foot of the bow which forms a decorative feature on the front surface. This area has been decorated with ridges. Around this curved area there is a border of raised rectangles. The rest of the disc (the outer circumference) is undecorated.
On the reverse of this disc the large catchplate survives but it has been badly damaged. Below the disc the tail of the brooch, otherwise known has the foot extends down. This section is shaped like a bird?s tail and has also been decorated with a series of ridges. On the reverse of this section the broken catchplate continues down from the reverse of the disc.
The metal is worn and the surface is corroded. The metal is a mid greenish-brown colour. This type of brooch dates from 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: | 1
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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