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Description: | An incomplete Late Iron Age/ Early Roman rosette or thistle brooch dating to c.AD25-60. It consists of the damaged tubular wings/ spring cover and six coils of the incomplete spring, the bow, and much of the plate and leg. All are apparently cast as one. The brooch is extremely worn with damage around the edges and almost all of the original patina is missing.The copper-alloy spring is contained within a cylindrical, open-ended casing, damaged at either end and to the reverse exposing the spring coils. It measures 24.54mm in length. The now-missing pin would have extended from a central slit in this casing. To the front, no decoration is visible beneath wear and patination loss, but a groove at the juncture between wings and bow has traces of numerous vertical grooves extending above it.The short, humped bow is decorated with a series of cast vertical ridges and interspersing grooves. It is apparently an elongated D-shaped in cross-section. At the other end of the bow is a horizontal groove.A crescentic plate springs from the base of the bow, traces of c.5 radiating segments decorating the worn surface. Behind is a larger, lozenge-shaped backplate with all original edges jagged and lost through wear. Any trace of decoration is now lost. Extending from the bottom of this is the foot, flat in cross-section with straight sides and decorated with cast vertical grooves and ridges.To the reverse of the foot are three broken and worn projections, the remains of the catchplate. Between the lozenge-shaped plate and the bow is a coiled piece of copper alloy, possibly part of the incomplete spring. There are also traces of iron corrosion around it.The brooch measures 51.43mm in length, 28.33mm in max.width (across the lozenge plate), 13.84mm in max.depth and weighs 15.19g.Cf. Hattatt 1989; 308, fig. 167, in particular 1470.
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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