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Description: | A cast copper alloy Wirral brooch dating to the Roman period, c.100-200 AD.It was a hinged brooch. The head is sub semi-circular in plan and on the reverse has a narrowed, integral and horizontal tube with a slot in the centre. Within the tube a copper alloy axis bar is visible. A fragment of the pin remains around the axis bar. The lower portion of the head plate is decorated with horizontal grooves and rows of low-relief dots.The bow is divided into two portions, the upper portion decorated with three vertical rectangular cells, which would have been filled with alternating coloured enamel, but none now remains. At the mid point of the bow there is a high-relief dome as moulded decoration. The lower portion of the bow is incomplete, the break is probably quite recent. This portion of the bow tapers towards the break, is undecorated and is a sub-lozenge in plan. On the reverse there is a fragment of the catchplate visible. In profile the shape of the bow is a sub '?' shape.The brooch is in quite good condition and has an incomplete shiny mid green/brown patina. The brooch measures 37.39mm long, 11.59mm wide across the bow head and weighs 10.9g.The brooch is a trumpet variant type, a Wirral type. This type of brooch is known as the Wirral type as the earliest discovery of this type was from the Wirral and it also now thought that this is where the main (if not only) production site was based (Philpott; 1999; 275). The Wirral brooch is thought to have been derived from the trumpet brooch.
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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