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Description: | Probably a fragment of a Roman copper alloy plate-headed T-shaped bow brooch. Only sections of the plate, hinge and bow remain. All breaks are old and very worn. It is covered in a green patina, whilst iron corrosion shows the hinge was of iron. It weighs 13.03g and measures 3o(incomplete)x31mm(incomplete).
The plate head is divided into two sections. The lower has a width of 22mm, the upper a width of 12mm. In total it is now 8mm (incomplete) high. However, the chain loop has partially broken off, its presence indicated by a circular indentation with a diameter of 3mm (incomplete) in the top of the plate. The plate is decorated with 4 ridges and 4 gooves running horizontal to the long axis of the brooch. 1.5 ridges and 1 groove are located on the narrower section and 2.5 ridges and 3 grooves are located on the lower wider section.
The iron hinge is encase in a tube. One arm is broken and the incomplete width is 31mm. The pin is missing.
Only the upper section of the bow remains with an incompelte length of 23mm. It has a maximum wideth of 17mm at the hinge and tapers to 13.5mm at the break. The broken edge consists of two straight sides meeting at a point. The half nearest the hinge is undecorated and flat with a thickness of 2mm. The other half is thicker at 3mm and decorated with 7 grooves running parallel to the long axis of the brooch.
This type of brooch is variable in form and local to Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset. It probably dates to the 2nd century (Hattatt 1987, pp.110). | 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: | 100
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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