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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman brooch, probably a headstud type. The wings are tubular with a central vertical slot allowing the hinged pin to move. The wings are decorated on the outer face with a single step, but both wings a incomplete. The pin is a hinged type and only a fragment remains. Integral to the upper edge of the wings there is two broken protrusions which are probably broken terminals and is thought to be an incomplete circular annular loop. The bow head is sub-rectangular in section and protrudes from the centre of the wings. The bow graduates to the bow with a circular platform at the apex, which is the headstud. The headstud is undecorated. Below the headstud the bow is sub-triangular in section and the two outer faces are decorated with a vertical saw-like linear shallow cell. There are no traces of enamel in these shallow cells but they may have been as this is common on headstud brooches. The bow terminates with a broken edge, but this break is not recent. The brooch has a well developed mottled mid green patina. It measures 21.82mm long, 14.71mm wide across the wings and weighs 4g.In her "Roman Brooch Timeline" (2007), Worrell dates headstud brooches to AD75-AD200. Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 165) comments that the headstud brooches with an integral upper loop and hinged pin are found throughout Britain and being manufactured in a number of workshops.
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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