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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Rosette brooch of Iron Age to Roman date. It is missing the foot and pin due to old breaks. The brooch has a semi-cylindrical spring casing with flat, round end plates that are pierced at their centre and hold in place a copper-alloy axis bar with the remains of a spring of 7 coils. The pin is missing due to old breaks. The front face of the spring casing has rectangular decoration surrounding the top of the bow and formed from double parallel grooves with traces of added white metal (niello?) coating. The bow itself is sharply curved with D-shaped section, transverse groove at top and bottom, and central vertical rib that has the remains of an added white metal coating. At its foot the bow joins an integrally cast central disc, which is decorated on the front face with three moulded concentric circles radiating from the bow and with a pelletd border at the outer edge. The base of the disc has the remains of an integrally cast foot, which is rectangular in form with moulded vertical grooves on the front face and terminates in old breaks just below the join of foot and disc. On the back face the foot is slightly raised from the disc and has the remains of an incomplete but integrally cast catchplate. The surviving brooch measures 33.89mm in length, 23.33mm in width at disc, 11.49mm in width at bow, 5.30mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 20.28g.This is an incomplete Rosette brooch of late Iron Age to Roman date. It is similar to examples published by Hattatt (1989: nos. 276, 783-784, 1468) and dates to the 1st century AD, c.25-65 AD.
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