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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman headstud brooch. It is missing the chain loop, pin and lower half of the bow/brooch due to old breaks. The brooch has short rectangular wings with at least two vertical moulded ridges or steps on their front faces. Each wing has a semi-cylindrical casing that holds in place a separately cast iron axis bar with a rectangular slot at the centre of the brooch through which the remains of the now missing pin would have hinged. At the top of the brooch is an integral but incomplete chain loop, most of which is missing due to old breaks. The bow is rectangular in form with a concave back face and a circular headstud below the chain loop. This is in the form of a projecting ring with central dot. The front face of the bow beneath the headstud has a central recessed panel, possibly originally enamelled although no enamel remains, with slight fluting to either side and a central moulding formed from a vertial band of lozenge shaped motifs. It measures 12.13mm in length, 12.94mm in width at wings, 7.05mm in width at bow, 4.78mm in thickness at headstud, and weighs 3.08g.Similar Roman headstud brooches are noted from Suffolk, in particular one example from Roman Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: no. 152) and examples recorded through the PAS (SF-A8E853, SF-A28634, SF-6A5287 and SF-C64AB7). These indicate a date in the late-1st to 2nd centuries AD for the current example.
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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