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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy Aesica brooch missing most of the back plate, foot and the pin. The head is 20.1mm long and formed of circular end caps joined by a front strip. The end caps are pierced to hold a cross bar around which the spring of the pin is wound. The spring is now very corroded but appears to have consisted of 4 coils either side of the pin, the pin is broken where it leaves the spring with an old break. The bow rises from the top of the front strip and curves through 180 degrees to meet the back plate. It is almost as wide as the head at the top and the sides are angled out giving it a trapezoid shape. The lower edge is shaped into two outer points flanking a longer central point. There is a central groove down the upper part of the bow but any other decoration is hidden by corrosion. The longer, central point at the lower end of the bow finished with a knop terminal, at the back of this is an integral rivet which goes through a flat back plate. The back plate is very incomplete, only part of the upper half survives. It is flat and is riveted to the upper part in the centre. The straight upper edge of the back plate abuts the lower edge of the head. The more complete side shows it expanded out from this upper edge to a widest point level with the rivet attachment point after which it narrowed again. The remaining section would have mostly been hidden under the upper bow and is plain.It is now 22.7mm long, 23.6mm wide, 10.7mm thick and weighs 8.63 grams.It can be dated from 50-75AD. A similar example is illstrated in Hattatt (2000:311), no.70. On that example the back plate is complete and, after narrowing form the central wide point, it expands back out into a triangular foot.
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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