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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Rosette brooch fragment preserving the upper half of the bow and part of the head only, the remainder missing due to old breaks. The head is triangular in form and perhaps has the remains of very worn and corroded wings separated by a rectangular slot where the pin would have hinged. The top of the head has a transverse recessed groove just above the point where head and bow meet. The bow itself is oval shaped in section with a fluted longitudinal groove running down the front face. At its base is a small and flat oval shaped plate that would originally have enabled attachment to the rosette/disc and now missing lower half of the brooch. The fragment measures 20.91mm in length, 9.83mm in width and weighs 2.98g. This is a fragment from the upper bow of a Roman bow brooch similar to examples in Hattatt (1989: Figs. 167-168). These are dated to the 1st century AD and indicate a date range of c.25-65 AD for the current example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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