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Description: | A cast copper alloy 1st ? 2nd century AD, T-shaped brooch. The brooch is enamelled.
The brooch has a double rolled pin holder (one of which is missing, due to well worn break).
The head proper of the brooch is rectangular and juts forward from the pin holder. The bow is rectangular but tapers slightly to the foot. The bow has been decorated with infilled enamelling. Copper wire has been used to draw out the cells on the design. The design is formed from a series of crosses in a row. Therefore creating three triangles down each side and two diamond-shapes in the centre; flanked by two triangles on either end. The central row has been filled in with red enamel. The triangles on the edge are filled in with blue enamel (which has crystallised and gone green). The foot is formed from three moulded collars. The foot proper has broken off.
Neither the pin nor the catchplate survive.
The reverse of the brooch is undecorated.
The surface of the metal is slightly pitted and corroded.
This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, p304, Fig. 162. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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