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Description: | A complete copper alloy Headstud brooch. The head of the brooch is wide (8.18 mm) and flattened. A complete headloop projects vertically from the head and is cast in one with the rest of the brooch (diameter approximately 9.9 mm). The wings are measure 17.6 mm wide and are tubular and enclosed. They enclose an iron hinge bar, and the hinged pin is intact and moves freely. The pin measures 41.7 mm in length. The bow juts out almost at a right-angle from the head and then runs abruptly downwards. It is curved in front, but hollow at the reverse. It is decorated with a headstud, comprised of two sub-circular cells, which would once perhaps have held enamel or another setting. Below this the leg extends downwards curving slightly. It is decorated to the front with a ridge which runs down the leg, itself adorned with a number of thin and closely spaced lateral ridges. The leg terminates in a ridged foot. The catch-plate is complete and is sub-triangular in shape, strating 24.1 mm up from the foot, before the hollowed part of the reverse of the brooch. The brooch measures 56.72 mm in length (including the head loop) and tapers from 8.18 mm wide at the head to 3.12 mm just above the foot. The foot itself is 6.8 mm thick. Headstud brooches are found throughout Britain. They date from the late first to second century. A very similar example, although in much poorer condition, was found nearby and is recorded on the PAS database as NARC-D6B3F5. Given the similarities, it seems likely that these two brooches were produced at the same workshop.
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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