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Description: | Head and upper part of the bow of a devolved T-shaped brooch of local type with an expanded fan shaped head plate. The head is a flat fan (D-shaped) plate. At the top of the curve of the fan is a small projecting flat oval knop, possibly the remains of a loop, now broken close to the plate. Along the straight lower edge of the plate is a cylinder with a central slot. The cylinder holds the bar on which the pin hinged, pivoting in the slot. The cylinder is open at both ends and iron corrosion in these holes suggest the bar was iron. About half of the pin survives, embedded in soil, and appears to be circular sectioned copper alloy wire with a patinated break at the end.The bow extends from the lower part of the centre of the head. The bow is broadly flat in section, only very slightly convex on the front. The bow rises at 90 degrees from the head then curves over 90 degrees before ending in an patinated break. The right edge appears damaged above the break but it appears to taper in width slightly from the head to the break. The catchplate and foot are lost. The front of the bow appears to be plain with no moulded or incised decoration.It is now 31.2mm long, 20.5mm wide at the wings, 9.8mm wide at the top of the bow and 15.4mm thick overall; it weighs 6.38 grams.This is a local variant, type T140, which develops the T-shaped brooches with cylindrical hinged heads, possibly as a local response to Trumpet headed brooches. Similar examples with varying decoration on the bow were recorded from 1st to 2nd century contexts at Nettleton, Wiltshire (Wedlake 1982:125-7, no.48 and 49). Wedlake (ibid) quotes examples from Radstock and Camerton while Bayley and Butcher (2004:167-8) suggest it is a south western type dating to the 2nd century. SOM-A62FC7 on this database from Somerset is 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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