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Description: | An incomplete cast and shaped copper-alloy Late Iron Age or Early Roman brooch; a Nauheim derivative type dating from 25 - 100 AD. The brooch is of one-piece construction but has been broken into two parts following discovery and has lost the pin in antiquity. The brooch has a spring of three turns with the spring being broken at the point of a fourth turn which would have been elongated to form the pin. The internal chord passes under the row of spring coils along the internal aspect of the head of the bow. The bow is a rounded triangle in section and an elongated tapering triangle in plan which tapers towards the foot. The head and neck of the brooch, which are bent at a sharp right angle to one-another, are decorated with moulding which is similar to the acanthus leaf decoration of Trumpet brooches, although in a two-dimensional form. The moulding consists of a 'waist' to the top and bottom of the neck with a sunken lozenge-shaped recess with raised rounded triangles above and below on the curve of the neck. Immediately below the lower 'waist' is further moulding consisting of two rounded downwards facing lobes and between them a triangle pointing upwards. The remainder of the length of the bow is plain apart from the foot which has two transverse grooves and a narrow border row of longitudinal grooves above. The catchplate is solid and has a rounded profile to the top and bottom, the return for securing the pin in place is missing.
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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