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Description: | A copper-alloy Rosette/Thistle type brooch, dating from the Late Iron Age to Early Roman periods.The copper-alloy spring is contained within a cylindrical, open-ended casing, on the underside of which can be seen the longitudinal join. The now-missing pin would have extended from a central slit in this casing. A band comprising at least three longitudinal grooves decorates the upper surface of the spring casing. The short, humped bow has been cast with the casing, and its upper surface is decorated with a series of cast vertical ridges and interspersing grooves. At the bottom, these ridges and grooves end, their termination being marked by a horizontal groove. A crescentic plate springs from the base of the bow, its surface decorated by a series of grooved segments. The crescentic plate has been joined to a larger, lozenge-shaped backplate and is contained within a raised, toothed border. A pair of parallel grooves extends around the damaged perimeter of the backplate. The foot, which springs from the base of the backplate, is of flat section, decorated with a series of vertical grooves and ridges, and has straight sides which flare towards a rounded base. The incomplete openwork catchplate is located on the underside of the foot, extending to halfway up the lozenge-shaped backplate. The foot is broken close to the top, the lack of patination suggesting that this damage occurred in recent times.Dimensions and weight not recorded.
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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