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Description: | A slightly unusual incomplete Roman (AD 50-150) copper alloy Dolphin (or Colchester Derivative) brooch, with damaged wings and missing its spring mechanism and pin. It measures 57.83mm in length and weighs 14.9g.The wings are D-shaped in cross-section being flat to the reverse. They are broken at either end and span an incomplete 17.12mm. A decorative groove remains to one side. The bow extends from the front and top of the wings, with an additional pierced crest extending above the wings along the centre of the bow for a quarter of its length. The piercing is for the missing chord and measures 2.08m m in diameter. The crest is triangular in cross-section and decorated with transverse grooves.The bow is triangular in cross-section, reaching a rounded point on the front, and narrows from 6.30mm wide at the wings to 2.67mm wide at the foot, which is decorated with two pairs of transverse grooves either side of a wide concave dip. The catchplate extends backwards from the bow to the reverse and the curl is decorated with double-grooved V and inverse V shapes.
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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