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Description: | A Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Rosette brooch of complex riveted (LĂ©ontomorphe) type, c.25-65 AD. The brooch is complete except for parts of the central disc. It consists of three distinct parts, an upper spring case and bow, a rosette plate, and a lower foot and catch plate, all held together by a central rivet. The spring case is cylindrical in shape with parallel incised circumferential grooves at one end and an old break at the other. There is two a transverse grooves across the top of the brooch. The wings cover five remaining coils of the incomplete spring, four on one side of the opening for the now missing pin, and one coil on the other. There is punched decoration on the front of the wings continuing down onto the bow. The wings are 25.6mm wide and 8.1mm in diameter.Attached to the spring case is a short integral and narrow bow in the shape of a crouching lion, the details of its form, particularly along its back, highlighted with short vertical and transverse incisions. The bow is 20.3 mm long and 7.6mm wide.Beneath the bow is the rosette made of two thin sheets of copper alloy. One of the sheets is irregularly shaped and forms a decorative crescent under the lion with ten projections emerging from it; two of nearest the bow join to the edge of the lower lozenge shaped plate. The lower plate is decorated with a boarder of three rows of punched pellet lines. The edges of the lozenge have been damaged by old breaks. The rosette is of a different green colour to the bow and foot suggesting that it has been made from a different alloy. The two different colours of metal may have been a decorative feature of the brooch.Beneath the rosette is a flat rectangular foot on the exterior of which are three vertical grooves, the areas in between the grooves fluted. The back of the foot is flat and there is an integral catch plate that is rectangular in shape, has a pronounced pin groove and a small circular perforation.The brooch is 53.8mm long, 25.6mm wide, 8.4mm thick and weighs 14.35 grams.A very similar example can be seen on the database: SF-7B02F4. This record sites two close parallels, including one near identical example, are noted from Roman Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: pp. 92-93, nos. 55-56). In particular Blagg et al., 2004: no. 56 is of very similar shape, with the same decoration on a lozenge shaped rosette and on the exterior of the foot. These two parallels indicate a date in the 1st century AD for this example.
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