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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy initial T-shaped brooch with hinged pin dating to c. AD 60-100. Half of the head, the lower part of the bow and the pin are missing. The brooch head had short open-ended cylindrical wings but only one now survives. Iron corrosion at both ends of this wing suggests the wings held an iron axis bar for the hinged pin. There was a large transverse slot through the centre of the underside of the head, between the wings, where the pin would have hinged, this is now open to one side due to the missing wing. There is a raised angled ridge between the top of the bow and the remaining wing. The bow is D shaped in section with a flat back. It rises at c.90 degrees to the head before curving over sharply 90 degrees then running straight to the worn break. The bow tapers in width and thickness gradually but consistently to the break. The upper part, to the bend, is plain. Below this it is decorated with a pair of narrow grooves running down the centre to the break. To each side are widely-spaced, broad raised lines. The moulded lines are angled to each side of the centre creating V-shapeds, the one nearest the top of the bow points upwards, the next downwards and the last before the break points upwards. The brooch is now 23.1mm long, 13.2mm wide, 11.1mm thick and weighs 6.98 grams.Bayley and Butcher (2004; 159) describe initial T-shaped brooches as 'usually hinged, not enamelled but sometimes with fine relief decoration and lacking a headloop.' They suggest a Flavian association (AD 69-96) and illustrate an example (T125), with similar ridge betweent the bow and wings but different decoration on the bow.
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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