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Description: | Copper alloy Roman Bagendon brooch. The head is small and flat. It is decorated with three parallel, raised, horizontal lines. To the rear, in the centre, is a notch where the hinged pin would have sat. The pin and pin fitting are now missing. The rear of the head would probably have curved round originally, forming a small cylinder to hold the pin in place. However, this curved section and part of the head to one side of the pin notch are now missing. In profile the bow curves quite strongly and when viewed from the upper face it tapers very slightly towards the foot. The outer face of the bow is decorated with a vertical raised line on both outer edges and a central, thin, vertical raised line with grooves on either side. The bow appears to have had three iron bars threaded through it horizontally, as is characteristic of this type of brooch, but all that remains of these now is iron errosion. The bow curves round into a short, pointed foot. To the rear of this is a small catchplate. This would have originally curved round to hold the pin, but this curved section is now missing. According to Bayley and Butcher 2004, p.151), these brooches are usually treated as an Aucissa variant with a similar date range. However, they suggest that, as the evidence for a pre-conquest date is limited (ibid.), it is in fact more likely to date to later in the Aucissa's timescale, towards the third quarter of the first century AD.Length: 30.43mm, Width: 8.90mm, Thickness of bow: 2.72mm, Weight: 2.8g
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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