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Description: | A corroded and incomplete, small cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs). The head and therefore the pin are missing, but the rest of the brooch remains. The point below the head is narrowed with the brooch having broken at this weak point. Below this, on the bow, is a transverse ridge (W.: 5.9mm). Below this is the main element of the bow, a transverse rectangular plate with three longitudinal ridges with two grooves between. To each side of the plate is a central knob/lug defined by a small longitudinal ridge. There is a possible ridge towards the end of the lugs. As with above the main element of the bow there is a transverse ridge below it, beyond a groove, as the leg begins. The leg is generally flat and plain, tapering gradually as it travels, broken at its tip just beyond a further transverse ridge. On its reverse is an abraded, broadly triangular catch-plate (max. web l.: 10.7mm); the fold is has been virtually lost. In profile the brooch travels upwards gradually from the foot up the leg. The bow curves down such that the head is in the same plane as the foot. The brooch has corroded to a red-brown colour with areas of off-white corrosion product. Some patches of tinning survive on the upper surface within the grooves next to the longitudinal ridges. Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type.
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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