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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy two-piece Colchester Derivative dolphin type brooch dating to 50-75 AD, with double pierced lug to hold the spring. The head and upper part of the bow is complete but the spring, pin, lower part of the bow and foot are missing to old breaks. The head is formed of two C-sectioned wings with concave backs and a circular plate in the centre which connects to the top of the bow. The wings are plain with rounded ends, one may be incomplete as it is shorter but the groove in the back also seems to end before the end of the wing suggesting it may be complete. The plate and joint with the bow are both pierced to take the cross bar for the spring and the overhead chord. The upper piercing is filled with corrosion and a coating added by the finder. The oval in cross-section bow extends from above the wings, curving above them then back over in the characteristic dolphin hump. It is plain and tapers evenly from the top to the break. It is 28.4mm long, 26.6mm wide and 14.0mm thick; it weighs 8.72 grams.SOM-6861F6 on this database if similar but more complete with the spring still in situ. Bailey and Butcher (2004; 88), illustrates similar examples, no. 193 with a flatter bow no.195 which is incomplete, Hull T92,and date this type to the mid first century , c.AD 50-75.
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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