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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy head stud bow brooch of Roman date (100-200AD). The wings are badly abraded but near complete being cylindrical in plan with closed pierced ends through which an axis bar passes. There is no cover over the axis bar and the pin is hinged. The hinged pin is sub-rectangular in cross section and is broken at the junction with the axis bar. The upper bow is abraded but there seems to be no remains of an integrally cast loop. The bow of the brooch is relatively short and angular; it is an angular D shaped in cross section. The bow tapers along its length and terminates in an abraded pointed foot. The catch plate on the reverse face of the bow is incomplete; it expands from a shallow rib below the mid point and is abraded. The pin rest is lost. The brooch is decorated with a number of areas of cast decoration. Below the head of the brooch at the point where the bow descends / changes angle (on the hump) is a raised cast circular boss with a further dome centrally positioned. It is possible that the area outside the central boss is decorated with inlaid decayed enamel. Below this 'head-stud' is a centrally positioned rib, either side of this are vertical groves / continuous cell possibly filled with either a decayed enamel or glass. These form a central vertical spine which is abraded. The brooch is a mid - dark green colour with a well preserved but abraded patina. Similar brooches can be seen in Richard Hattatt's Visual Guide to Ancient brooches pp 332 fig; 191 and Bayley and Butcher: Roman Brooches in Britain p 168-169.The brooch measures 29.0mm length, 8.7mm width across wings 6.9mm width across bow, is 6.1mm thick at the same point; the brooch weighs 4.48 grams.
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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