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Description: | A Roman copper alloy headstud brooch dating from 75 - 200 AD. The head loop is missing. The wings are decorated with a vertical row of lozenge shaped cells on each wing, each row flanked by triangular cells. Some red enamel survives in the triangles on one wing. Behind the head, the brooch is tubular and holds a copper alloy axis bar and a copper alloy hinged pin, almost all of which is missing. The axis bar once continued out of the ends of the wings and would have formed the head loop, but is broken. At the top of the bow is a raised vertical ridge; a pseudo chord hook. The stud is missing; but its hollow setting is visible, with a rivet hole from its base through to the back of the brooch. The bow is decorated with ridge along the apex. The lower bow and foot is missing. The breaks are worn and patinated. The bow is sub-oval in section.The brooch has a dark green patina.
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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