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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman initial T shape brooch. The head is cylindrical in shape, but one half is now missing, as is a small portion of the corresponding side of the head. Within it can be seen the remains of a copper alloy axis bar, but the rest of the pin fitting and the pin itself are now missing. Only the upper bow survives, below this the rest of the bow is missing. The outer face of the bow is rounded, whilst the reverse is concave. Where the bow joins the head a raised diagonal ridge can be seen on the remaining side. Around 10mm below this the bow is decorated with a further two diagonal ridges, sloping upwards towards the centre and not quite ajoining one another. Extending downwards from these are two slighly raised vertical sections, with a space in their centre. These culminate in two further diagonal ridges, this time sloping downwards towards the centre. The bow has slightly similar decoration to one from Ilchester illustrated by Mackreth (in Leach 1982, fig.115, no.4). According to Bayley and Butcher (2004, p.158-9), this early group of T-shaped brooches, which are usually hinged, non-enamelled and lacking the headloop that many of the later T-shaped brooches have, date from the mid to late 1st century AD and appear to be of South-Western manufacture. Length: 19.07mm, Width of head: 17.23mm, Thickness: 4.62mm, Weight: 2.47g
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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