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Description: | Cast cu-alloy Roman headstud brooch of late 1st or early 2nd century AD in date. Though somewhat corroded it is a large sturdy brooch, bow, foot, head and loop intact - only the pin and part of the spring are missing. It has a swivelling wire chain loop at the back. The axis bar was a thin cylindrical sleeve into which the curved ends of the wire loop were inserted. The chore us anchored by a lug on top of the bow head. It does not have have a head stud; the bow is decorated with two moulded crests instead. The wings have also been decorated with sequence of moulded grooves following a spindle on either side. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dot Boughton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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