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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy brooch, probably of strip bow form although as it is missing most of the head and the foot other Aucissa varients cannot be completely ruled out. At the head the bow starts to widen before ending in an irregular old break. There is just the start of the central groove which once held the hinged pin. The curled over upper edges of the wings which would have formed a cylinder to hold the spindle for the hinged pin are missing. It is not clear if these curled forward (as on Aucissa types) or backwards, underneath the head (as on local varients of the Aucissa type including strip bow brooches).The bow is flat and rectangular in section. After narrowing below the head it continues to narrow very slightly down its length before the break. It is even in thickness from the head to the break at the foot and has only a very shallow curve in profile. It has broken above the catchplate. The front of the bow is moulded with raised edges, inside which are grooves runnign down the length flanking a broad raised central ridge. the grooves are decorated with incised zigzag lines. The piece is now 30.6mm long, 7.1mm wide and 1.4mm thick and weighs 1.54 grams.Bayley and Butcher (2004, 154) suggest that most strip brooches are of British manufacture and date to AD c.25-c.70. SOM-0B7204 on this database is similar but with different decoration down the bow. Wedlake (1982:122) no.25 from Nettleton, Wiltshire is also very similar.
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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