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Description: | One wing from the head of an unusually robust Roman colchester derivative brooch, of hinged Dolphin or T-shaped type. The head has broken across the slot in the centre where the pin would have hinged and only th beginning of the bow on that side of the slot remains attached to the wing.The wing has a semi-circular front and a flat back with a semi-circular cross sectioned ridge running down the centre. There is a circular hole running through the wing from end to end, narrower at the outer end of the wing where the hole is filled with a white substance.The front of the wing is shaped into two prominent knops with narrowed and thinned waists between the knops and the inner knop and the bow. The outer knop is plain with a groove dividing a narrow collar from the main knop. The middle knop is flanked by similar grooves marking off narrow collars and decorated with regularly spaced parallel diagonal incised grooves across the main knop. These are worn from the front but visible in places. At the end of the wing, adjacent to the bow, is a separate narrow collar. The bow itself appears D-shaped with a flat back and remains of diagonal incised decoration on the front.The remaining fragment is 22.4mm long, 10.2mm wide and 10.3mm thick; it weighs 7.66 grams.Similarly robust brooches with mouded beading or knops on the wings are recorded by Mackreth (2011 Plate 54-5), in particular no.2641 which has very similar decoration on the wings to this example and Hattatt (2000:299) no.366 and 1510. Both suggest these are hinged Dophin types which are dated to the late 1st century, c. AD 55-100. Bayley and Butcher (2004:94) illustrate another similar example from Richborough, no.233, found out of context, which they record as a hinged T-shaped brooch.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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