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Description: | Romano-British complete zoomorphic horse-and-rider plate brooch, similar to, but slightly larger and more elaborately finished than Gurney EAA 31, fig.41 nos.17-23. The details of the mane and of the rider's hair are very finely executed, while the tail, which expands to the end, is not grooved. The arrangement of the enamel cells is also rather different with three cells on the forequarters, five in all. All enamel now appears greenish. The main divergent points about this brooch are, firstly, the presence of straight and curvilinear, transversely grooved appliqué bands, one around the body of the rider and extending to the springing of the tail, the other running backwards from the rider's protruding foot but not reaching the tail. It should be noted that D.F. Mackreth (ibid. 66) suggested that the other brooches from the site might have been decorated with appliqués. Secondly the pin arrangement is different: the sprung pin is fixed on an axis bar within a double pin lug. Length tail to foreleg 30mm, tail to muzzle 35mm.
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