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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Dorset-type T-shaped brooch of early Roman date. The head and upper part of the bow survive, the rest is lost to old breaks. The head has long, thin cylindrical wings which hold the copper alloy axis bar for the hinged pin. The ends of the wings are damaged but appear to have pairs of transverse incised lines. The central pin slot still contains the head of the copper alloy pin although the rest is lost to an old break. At the top of the head is a projecting tab, trapezoid in shape, widening away from the head with the stubs of a projecting loop on the top edge. About a quarter to a third of the bow survives, it rises vertically from the head before bending over at a sharp 90 degree angle just above, from the angle it has a slight convex curve in profile before the break. It is rectangular in section. The front is moulded with two incised lines running down the length parallel to the sides and, after the change in angle, two recessed rectangular cells running down the length and taking up nearly the entire width.It is now 22.7mm long including the head loop, 28.0mm wide (at the wings) and 11.5mm thick; it weighs 4.41 grams. There are several similar brooches in Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue', in particular no. 1522 (2000, fig. 163, p. 304) from Dorchester, Dorset. Bayley and Butcher (2004:167-8) suggest this type (T139) is an unusual variant of the T-shaped brooches with a mostly south western distribution; they suggest a second to possibly third century date.
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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