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Description: | A Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy brooch of Langton Down Type and of 1st century AD date.The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head and part of the spring only (with a surviving length of 21.4mm, a surviving depth of 11.5mm and a weight of 4.9g). Much of the spring remains in place, enclosed within an open cylindrical head of curved sheet, now truncated (with a surviving width of 20.2mm). The terminals were enhanced with vertical grooves and there is a double horizontal groove at the top of the head. The upper bow has a curved grooved border at the head and projects at a perpendicular angle to the head. The surviving part of the bow is of D-shaped section, with straight sides converging slightly to the break (with a width and thickness at the head of 12.1mm and 2.7mm respectively). The front of the bow is decorated with prominent vertical ribbing. The surface has a dark-green patina with areas of pale-green corrosion.Although fragmentary, the brooch would appear to correspond to Hull's Class B variant of the Langton Down type (Hull's Corpus type 21B).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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