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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman Plate brooch of the bridge type, missing half of the bow, the foot, catchplate and pin.The brooch is 24.05mm in surviving length and max.10.95mm wide. It weighs 2.21grams. It is curious in that on the reverse it has a single pierced lug, which would have been sprung. Hattatt mentions (Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts, 1989, p.148 no.1602) this is a peculiar sub-type known to Britain.The surviving terminal protrudes from the bow adjacent to the pierced lug, the terminal has an elongated terminal with a slight depression visible at the tip and is circular in cross section. The terminal is 8.45mm in length and 3.25mm max width.The central 'bow' is 8.2mm wide at the surviving end, widening to 10.95mm (maximum width at the centre). It is 1.5mm thick. As the bow expands from the terminal it is decorated with a raised section which has two deep horizontal grooves. The bow both expands and thins, from 2.95mm at the terminal to 1.3mm at the break. A central raised possibly rectangular border is visible just before the old break, the raised border is defined internally with an incised rectangular border. Located within the incised rectangular border are two deeper incisions which are c.5 mm in length. The edges of the bow has been decorated with triangular projections running along both edges for the bows surviving length. The reverse is undecorated.The remainder of the bow, the foot, the terminal and the catchplate are missing.
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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