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Description: | Copper alloy Hod Hill brooch fragment with silver plating traces. Hod Hill brooch, Mackreth type Hod Hill 1.b1. Bifurcated and expanded head rolled forward to retain an axis bar (lost), separated from the upper bow by a collar formed of a ridge flanked by flutes, with a rectangular upper bow with three vertical ridges, the central one billeted, with small wings set centrally to either side, each comprising a flute and a knop. A further fluted collar is set below; the rest of the brooch is lost. Faint traces of silver plating remain in the flutes. Suggested date: Early Roman, 43-75 AD.Length: 19.7mm, Width: 17.7mm, Thickness (crest of bow): 1.1mm, Weight: 2.11gms.
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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