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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy brooch of Roman date. It is missing the spring and pin due to old breaks. The wings are semi-cylindrical in form with diagonal grooves on the front faces. Between the wings is a projecting head that is oval shaped in form with a rear-facing hook that holds in place an incomplete and separately cast cylindrical spring chord. On its front face the head is decorated with grooves that form a cross saltire. The bow has a flat back and moulded, projecting front face. This consists of a prominent pyramidal projection with incised diagonal strokes on each side of its upper face and a small transverse notch on its lower face. Beneath this, the bow flattens and has transverse projections to each side with a transverse rib. Two incised grooves form a saltire on the lower half of the bow, which has a hemispherical terminal knop decorated with multiple vertical grooves. On the back face of the foot is the integral catchplate, which is D-shaped in form and missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The brooch measures 29.43mm in length, 17.08mm in width at wings, 10.23mm in thickness at central projection, and weighs 7.33g. This brooch finds parallels in a group of Roman brooches that Hattatt terms Reversed Fantail brooches (Hattatt, 1989: Fig. 172, nos. 807-814, 1393 and 1487). These are probably derived from the Aesica group of brooches and may well be of East Anglian origin (pers. comm. J. Plouviez, SCC). The parallels indicate a 1st century AD date for the current example.
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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