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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy tinned and enamel Equal-ended plate brooch, possibly of the Bridge type and missing the shank of the pin and part of the curl of the catchplate. Some of the enamel is also missing. The brooch measures 59.01mm in length, 16.75mm in max.width (at the central rectangular plate) and weighs 12.96g.The 'plate' is rectangular in shape, measuring 16.75x9.41x2.98mm. It is decorated with eight trianglular cells in two rows of four, points facing outwards. Between the two rows is a central line of joined lozenges. The triangular cells contain traces of a dull green enamel while the central lozenge-line carries traces of red enamel. A single grooved line flanks the edges of the rectangle.Extending from top and bottom of the longer edge of the 'plate' are the equal ends, c.8mm in width and c.3mm thick. After c.2mm is a prominent rib below which the ends curve steeply downwards ending in a moulded triangular formation at the ankle. The feet beyond are triangular in shape (c.10 and 11mm wide) and cross-section, the apex being decorated with tiny transverse grooves. The edges are serrated (and worn) giving a rather leaf-like appearance. These terminate in a rounded, D-sectioned, semi-circular knop (7.5mm and 8.3mm wide and c.3mm thick). Tinning is particulary prominent on the feet.To the reverse is a worn and pierced (2.94mm diameter) catchplate behind one foot and a double-lug with pin head intact behind the other. An iron axis bar is also evident through corrosion.The equal ends are a little unusual although Hattatt has a parallel in Ancient Brooches of Antiquity, no.1593. He describes this a forerunner of the Bridge type, although the Woodford example does perhaps have elements more in common with Hattat's Bridge type, in particular the long horizontal rectangular 'plate' (cf Hattatt 1603) and its decoration (cf Hattatt 582, 1414). Bayley and Butcher (2004, p.171) describe this type as an Early Symmetrical type, and dating to the Flavian period (AD 69-96) when enamel is becoming the preferred method of decoration, and is at first in very small cells. They comment on the similarity with the later Bridge type brooches but these tend to have a better developed enamel technique.
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