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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman Aesica variant brooch with cruciform bow and fantail foot and hinged pin.The wings are decorated with oblique lines and incised triangles which still contain fragments of the original enamel. Part of the hinge and top of the pin remain as iron oxide around a central iron spindle, judging from the corrosion product that has formed along the back of one wing from its exposed end.The bow is in the form of a cross with expanded arms, with the side arms terminating in settings for spherical knobs or bosses. There is also evidence of a central boss as the remains of an iron rivet can be seen running through the thickness of the bow.The fantail foot has five incised triangles around a central circle in a wheel formation, which may also have originally been enamelled, but certainly appears to have been tinned (Dr Justine Bayley, to be published). The two pointed ends of the tail also have settings for circular bosses which are now empty. The whole of the catchplate remains on the back of the foot."A number of these Roman fantails have 'Celtic Art' on them and are enamelled which forms part of a flourish of late La Tene decoration in the mid Roman period (see gold brooch from Carmarthen and the original Aesica brooch itself. They seem to be a west and north distribution, so Cornish examples should be expected. Pairs of later 1st and 2nd AD Roman Brooches are also a western British phenomena" (Dr. J.D. Hill pers comm).Hattatt (2000) illustrates some similar examples of Aesica type brooches on page 310, Fig.169, Nos.1477-1478, which are dated to the 1st century AD.Local comparanda include a very similar example from St. Mawgan-in-Pydar, excavated by Threipland in the 1950s and dated to the mid-1st century AD (Threipland in Archaeological Journal, Vol.CXIII, 1956, pp.71-72).There have also been three other examples found in the county since, which are recorded onto this PAS database: a pair from St. Hilary (CORN-DE55F7 & CORN-DEC722) and one from Constantine (CORN-3A58B3), which all have the cruciform bow and settings for bosses as well as very similarly decorated foot plates with a wheel formation of triangular facets. These brooches and others have been identified as Cornish Type 31 by Justine Bayley and published in Tyacke, Bayley & Butcher (2011) and this brooch is illustrated on page 141, Fig.11.1, No.1.1st-2nd century AD
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