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Description: | Cast copper alloy Hod Hill brooch length 19mm, width 19mm, thickness 4mm, weight 1.99g. Tubular wings that encase the pin support bar, a slot in the centre rear of the wings would have accommodated the pin, most of the rear of the wings are missing. The head is flat and appears to be plan, it narrows to an oval cross section leg the is truncated near the head.
The artefact is heavily corroded with the whole of the original surface missing which has obscured any detail that would have remained.
This artefact dates to 80-120AD. | 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: | 80
120 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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