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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Maxey type Bow-and-fantail brooch of late first to early-second century AD date. Only the foot and catchplate are preserved, the remainder of the brooch now missing due to old breaks. The foot is flat and triangular in form expanding to a flattened base. It is decorated on its front face with an incised grooved border within which is an inner border of punched dots that form a triangular shape. There are traces of an added white metal coating on the front face. On the back face is an integrally cast catchplate, which is sub-triangular in form with a folded outer edge and a flattened square base. On its outer face there appeare to be a moulded or incised border, while on the inner face there is a deeply incised groove where the pin would originally have rested. This brooch fragment measures 15.88mm in length, 10.49mm in width at base, 8.21mm in thickness including cathcplate, and weighs 1.78g. This is the foot from a Roman Bow-and-fantail brooch of Maxey type similar to examples published by Hattatt (1987: nos. 876-881). This group of brooches has a probable origin in the Eastern Counties and Crummy suggests they are likely to be a prototype for later (2nd century AD) bow-and-fantail brooches with enamelled foot, the group possibly dating to the second half of the 1st century AD, c.50-80 AD (Crummy, 1985: 164-166, fig. 111 no. 2).
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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