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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy T-shape brooch with ?spring mechanism, incomplete, 1st-2nd century. The ?spring and pin are missing. There is a lug at the back of the head which presumably held the spring, but there is no upper hook or piercing to take the chord. The short, narrow wings (length c.6.5mm, width 3mm-4mm, thickness 2.3mm) are D-shepd in section (flat on the back) and decorated with numerous (7?) transverse narrow ridges. The top of the head is flat; there is no evidence of a loop. The curving bow is undecorated. Tapered foot. Complete trapezoidal catchplate. Length 36.9mm, width across wings 19.2mm, width across head 5.5mm, max thickness across bow 4.5mm, length of catchplate 14.9mm, weight 6.15g.No parallel in Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue' (2000, Oxbow).
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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