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Description: | A Roman period, copper alloy Horse and rider plate brooch facing right; 19.59mm long, 8.95mm wide and 5mm thick. The Brooch weighs 1.2g and is decorated with four enamel cells all now empty.The object is sub rectangular in form and rectangular in section; and has one sub rectangular intrusion which marks a partial body of the rider, along with the body of the horse.The horse portion of the brooch is decorated with two cells, the first running between neck and forelimb is semicircular in nature, with a second linear cell running along the base of the object before curving into the horses rump.Two cells decorate the body of the rider, one linear cell runs down the front of the rider, with a second sub circular cell is located behind thisThe reverse of the brooch consists of a copper alloy catch plate running along the base of the object, and a spring located in the hind quarters of the horse.
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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