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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy tinned Hod Hill brooch with bottom side lugs, missing the shank of the pin. It measures 44.87mm in length and weighs 5.22g.The wings are 13.72mm in width with a central slot for the pin, the head and short piece of shank of which is corroded into place with the iron axis bar.The flat upper bow (8.68x2.12mm) extends from the base of the wings and curiously off-centre. A 2.5mm long cut-away area directly in front of the wings is filled with iron corrosion apparently from a cord extending from the axis bar and resting lower than the top of the upper bow. A cord does not make sense with a hinged pin, so perhaps this was for effect only.Beyond the corrosion-filled area the upper bow is decorated with a rib flanking both long edges, one of which is damaged. A wide curving-sectioned furrow lies next to this and either side of the central upper bow-decoration, two prominent ribs decorated with tiny horizontal incised lines containing traces of tinning either side of a shallower area, filled with tinning and a central wiggly-line rib. In profile the upper bow curves gently outwards and in slightly. At this point a decorated knob extends to either side, flat to the reverse but with moulded double-rib decoration to the front, the outside-most of which is shorter than its partner.Below the upper bow (which has narrowed slightly to 8.48mm below the side knobs) is a horizontal rib 7.58mm wide, stepped lower than the upper bow. The lower bow (stepped lower again) is 7.12mm wide below this and narrows over 22mm to 3.45mm wide. The lower bow drops at a slight angle backwards. The foot is rectangular in shape 5.11x1.97mm and the catchplate to the reverse triangular in form. It is missing its curl.Hod Hill brooches are known from post-conquest depositions and the type is better known on the continent. It is likely they went out of use c.70 AD (Bayley & Butcher 2004, p.153).
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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