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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy two-piece Colchester Derivative dolphin type brooch dating to 50-75 AD, with double pierced lug to hold the spring. The head and upper part of the bow is almost complete but the spring, pin, lower part of the bow and foot are missing to old breaks. The head is formed of two C-sectioned wings with concave backs and a flat sided, rounded ended lug in the centre which connects to the top of the bow. The wings are plain with rounded ends, one is incomplete, about one third remains and the rest is lost to an old break. The more complete wing is slightly twisted and missing one of the outer corners, again to an old break. The lug in the centre of the head is pierced twice to take the cross bar for the spring and the overhead chord. The upper piercing is filled with mud and the lower with the remains of the copper alloy spring.The oval in cross-section bow extends from above the wings, curving above them then back over in the characteristic dolphin hump. It is plain and tapers evenly from the top to the break which occurs just below the head. The incomplete booch is now 15.0mm long, 22.4mm wide across the wings and 19.2mm thick; it weighs 7.07 grams.SOM-6861F6 on this database if similar but more complete with the spring still in situ. Bailey and Butcher (2004; 88), illustrate similar examples, no. 193 with a flatter bow and no.195 which is incomplete, both are Hull type T92. They date this type to the mid first century , c.AD 50-75.
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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