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Description: | Part of a copper alloy double pierced lugged brooch. Only the spring to the right of the bow head survives, six coils are intact of what would have originally been a fourteen-coil spring. The spring is covered by plain curved semicircular wings decorated by a single longitudinal groove on the outer edge of the wing, 2.03mm from the edge. The wing is 6.35mm wide and extends 15.40mm either side of the centre of the bowhead giving the wings a total length of 30.80mm. The bow is 10.94mm wide and extends to the current length of 28.33mm where the lower bow and foot/catch plate have broken off. There is a prominent moulding down the centre of the bow with fluting on either side resulting in the bow cross section being sub-triangular, the reverse edge being flattish convex and the upper sides concave. The upper lug is quite high. The spring has been made from a different alloy to the rest of the brooch. The brooch weights 10.91g. Early Roman in date of AD 43-100.
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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