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Description: | An incomplete Roman (AD 50-150) copper alloy Colchester Derivative T-shaped brooch, with hinge mechanism. It is missing one tubular wing, the pin and the lower bow. It measures 23.83mm in incomplete length and weighs 3.60g.The surviving width of the brooch is 22.11mm and would have originally been c.30mm. The surviving wing measures 4.02mm in diameter and is decorated to the front with a transverse groove flanking the end, and a pair of transverse grooves roughly halfway. To the reverse is a slot for the pin. The axis bar is visible in the cross-section of the broken wing. The bow extends from the top of the wings and is max.10.19mm wide. It is decorated with three deep V-shaped grooves, stacked inside each other, and creating corresponding ribs. Below the bow becomes oval in cross-section and measures 2.89x3.68mm at the break, which is also a little bent.
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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