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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman Plate brooch of the bridge type, missing its pin.
The brooch is 34.2mm in length (terminal to terminal) and max.11.7mm wide. It weighs 3.31g. It is curious in that on the reverse it has a single pierced lug, which would have been sprung. Hattatt mentions (Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts, 1989, p.148 no.1602) this is a peculiar sub-type known to Britain and at the time of writing only 6 others were known (though presumably this number has grown, although there are none on the PAS database).
This brooch is most similar to 1602, from Dorchester. It has the same elongated terminals, developed from the acorn type, which take on a rather phallic look. One is D-shaped in section, being curved to the underside. It has a protruding horizontal rib just before the end. The other extends from the catchplate underneath and has the same protruding rib before the end. The former is 6.4mm long, the latter 9mm.
The central 'bow' is 7mm wide at each end, widening to 11.7mm (maximum width at the centre). It is 1.7mm thick. A central rectangular area with a double horizontal groove at the centre and surrounded by a raised border (the longer two edges of which are decorated with diagonal incised lines) is flanked on each side by three 'steps'. These are created by a sloping of the metal in each section running into the original height of the one infront.
The catchplate is intact and max.7mm deep and 7mm high.
2nd century. | 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: | 101
200 | 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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