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Description: | A copper-alloy brooch of Roman date. It is missing the spring and pin due to old breaks. The wings are semi-cylindrical in form with deeply incised diagonal grooves on their outer faces. Between the wings is a projecting head that is triangular in form extending to a small rear-facing hook. The front face of the head is decorated with incised crosses. Beneath the head is the bow, which has a flat back and porjecting, moulded front face. At the base of the head is a pyramidal projection with incised diagonal grooves on its upper two faces, and a single, small transverse groove across the bottom two faces. The bow beneath this projection is lozenge shaped in plan with faceted, projecting front face producing a pyramidal form. Each of the four faces has four incised diagonal grooves running from the central point of the lozenge to the outer edge of the bow. The foot of the brooch extends beneath the bow, is rectangular in form with a rounded end, flat back and domed front face. It too has incised decoration comprising a series of short transverse grooves running down either side of the foot, with vertical grooves along the curved bottom edge. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast semi-circular catchplate, that is perhaps missing its outer edges due to old breaks. The entire brooch measures 32.80mm in length, 18.67mm in width at bow, and weighs 5.61g.This brooch finds parallels in a group of Roman brooches that Hattatt terms Reversed Fantail brooches (Hattatt, 1989: Fig. 172, nos. 807-814, 1393 and 1487). These are probably derived from the Aesica group of brooches and may well be of East Anglian origin (pers. comm. J. Plouviez, SCC). The parallels to this example indicate a 1st century AD date 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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