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Description: | Foot and bow of a cast copper alloy Roman Aucissa brooch. Is highly corroded but appears to be a thin strip with a flat back and slightly convex front. It is highly arched, hemi-spherical in profile. Any decoration is lost to corrosion. The foot is short and horizontal, bending out at 90 degrees to the end of the bow. It ends in what appears to be a separately added terminal knop. The catchplate ran along the lower side of the foot but only a short stub remains. The rest of the brooch, the head and pin, are lost to old breaks. It is 45.2mm long, 4.8mm wide and 19.6mm tall and weighs 1.84 grams.Bayley and Butcher (2004:68) illustrate several similarly plain Aucissa brooches with narrow bows from Richborough, no.86-88; they suggest a date of c.40-60 AD (ibid:151).
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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