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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch. The brooch is well preserved with the exception of missing its spring and pin. The brooch is a Polden Hill style brooch with elaborate scrolled moulding down the sides of the bow. The centre spine of the bow is decorated with a small raised rib with multiple horizontal scores. Similar decoration is repeated in two rows on either arm of the brooch, and at the junction of the arms and the bow. The catchplate is complete and is also decorated . The decoration here comprises three sets of double linear bands arranged at the top, middle and bottom of the catchplate. The foot of the brooch has three raised horizontal bands. Iron staining around the spring chamer indicates the presence of an iron bar that the copper spring would have been wound around. This brooch is not closely paralleled in Hattatt (2007) however similar styles are illustrated in MacKreth (2011) plates 51-53. The type dates from c. AD 75-175.
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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