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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy initial T-shaped brooch with hinged pin dating to c. AD 60-100. The lower part of the bow, foot and pin of the brooch are missing to worn breaks. The brooch head has open-ended cylindrical wings, 32.1mm wide, containing a circular-sectioned axis bar for the hinge. One end is almost closed apart from the tip of the bar, which appears to be iron; the other end has a small break across it. The wings are each decorated with U-sectioned transverse grooves with raised transverse wide and narrow collars between in the pattern of pairs of grooves by the central bow, then three grooves in the centre and a final groove near the end. There is a large transverse slot through the centre of the underside of the head, between the wings, where the pin hinges. Part of the head of the pin remains in this slot on the axis bar. The bow is D shaped in section with a flat front and slightly convex plain back. It rises at c.90 degrees to the head before curving over 90 degrees to the foot. The upper part is more curved and the lower part of the bow probably originally ran relatively straight to the foot, now mostle missing. The bow tapers in width and thickness gradually but consistently from the head to the worn break. The remaining part is decorated with two grooves running down the front, converging slightly as the bow narrows. The brooch fragment is 19.6mm long, 11.6mm thick and weighs 7.59 grams.Bailey and Butcher (2004:158) illustrate similar pieces although with a range of different moulded decoration and suggest a Flavian or slightly earlier context.
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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