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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy Initial T-shaped brooch with hinged pin dating to c. AD 60-100. The brooch is near complete although the catchplate, foot and the pin are missing. The brooch head has cylindrical wings both of which are complete. One end has slightly split and there appears to be a small patch of iron corrosion indicating that the axis bar would have been made of iron. There is a hole at the back of the brooch where the pin would have been attached to the axis bar but both the pin and the bar are now missing.The bow is D shape in section with a flat back and convex front. It rises at c.90 degrees from the head before curving over in a continuous curve to the foot of the bow. The bow tapers in thickness and width from 9.6mm at the top of the bow to 3.4mm where the foot has broken off. The brooch has a small indented triangle decorating the bow but the surface is very worn and any other slight incised decoration may now be lost. The brooch is 40.3mm long, 33.1mm wide at the wings, 20.6mm thick and weighs 12.49 grams.Bayley and Butcher (2004, 159) suggest that 'Initial T-shaped brooches' were 'usually hinged, not enamelled but sometimes with fine relief decoration and lacking a head loop' and dated to the Flavian period (AD 69-96) or earlier.
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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