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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy brooch, probably of strip bow form although as it is missing the curled over section of the head and the foot other Aucissa varients cannot be completely ruled out. At the head are short, flat, rectangular wings flanking a a central groove which once held the hinged pin. They are 11.5mm across and 4.3mm broad. The curled over upper edges of the wings which would have formed a cylinder to hold the spindle for the hinged pin are missing. It is not completely clear if these curled forward (as on Aucissa types) or backwards, underneath the head (as on local varients of the Aucissa type including strip bow brooches) although there is a slight bend that may suggest it curled backwards. The wings have a transverse groove across the front near the end and are both broken at the upper outer corners and upper edge with worn breaks. The bow is flat and rectangular with a concave back. It is even in width and thickness from the head to the old break at the foot and has only a very shallow curve in profile. It has broken above the catchplate. The front of the bow is moulded with three parallel grooves running down the lengh, the outer two plain and the inner formed of closely spaces indented dots. The piece is now 32.7mm long, 1.8mm thick and weighs 2.06 grams.Bayley and Butcher (2004, 154) suggest that most strip brooches are of British manufacture and date to AD c.25-c.70.
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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