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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman brooch, possibly a headstud brooch: The wings are a horizontal rectangular plate which on the reverse has two perforated integral lugs which support an iron axis bar. Around this bar the copper alloy spring is coiled four times. The pin is missing. The upper edge of the wings there is an incomplete small head loop which is positioned on a rectangular body. The outer face of the wings is mainly covered with a triangular bow head which narrows to the bow. The side of the bow head is quite angular and decorated with transverse grooves/ridges. The upper portion of the bow, which is narrowed below the bow head is decorated with a small high-relief lozenge on either outer faces of the bow. The bow is triangular in section. The bow is broken towards the bow head, and this break is not recent. The brooch has a well matte mid grey/green patina. It measures 24.84mm long, 15.24mm wide across the wings and weighs 3.4g.This would be an unusual headstud brooch, lacking the headstud, but the style of the bow head, headloop and wings are very similar. Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 165) comments that the headstud brooches are found throughout Britain and being manufactured in a number of workshops. In her "Roman Brooch Timeline" (2007), Worrell dates headstud brooches to AD75-AD200.
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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