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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are tubular, and have been formed by the terminal of the bow being folded back on itself. A central slot has been added to the fold to allow for the pin to be hinged. The axis bar which would run through the tube and the pin are all missing and one side of the tubular wings is incomplete. In profile the bow is arched forming a ?C? shape in profile. This portion of the bow is a slender rectangular in section, but the outer face has moulded decoration consisting of transverse ridges below the wings and then a wide, central, concave groove bordered by a ridge. The bow, along with the decoration tapers until the lower portion of the bow. The lower portion of the bow is curved in the opposite direction, so rather than being arched it is concave and tapers slightly, terminating with a bulbous foot. The reverse of the lower portion of the bow has the remains of the catchplate. The brooch is abraded and incomplete. The surface is a mottled light green/orange brown colour, suggesting an iron object may have corroded near the brooch at some point. It measures 46.06mm long and 10.86mm wide across the wings. It weighs 4.7g.
The brooch is an early Roman hinged brooch, a type called the Aucissa. The distinctive feature for this type of brooch is the tubular wings and the highly arched bow with a smaller lower bow and finial, a similar example is illustrated in Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 151), No. T51 Figure 116. Bayley and Butcher (2004; p. 151) comment that these type of brooches are found across the Roman Empire and were thought to originate with the military, but were then reproduced by local manufacturers. In Britain they date to the mid to late 1st century and are a common type of brooch the in the south and Midlands (Bayley and Butcher 2004; p. 151). | 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
70 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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