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Description: | Copper alloy brooch. Cast zoomorphic hybrid of a trumpet brooch with a fly shaped plate brooch, cf. Mackreth type OBJECT 6.a. The head is that of a small trumpet brooch with a moulded line around its edge and the stub of a top loop. A spring of five coils is retained behind the head on an axis bar between a pair of semi-circular lugs. The bow tapers sharply, but expands again with its middle and lower part in the form of a triangular plate with indented base, where the upper bow meets it, and with a collared sub-rhomboid head, with a spot of what may be green enamel on it. The plate is shaped like a fly with its head towards the foot of the brooch, and the wings have two sub-triangular panels filled with blue and green enamel, with a rhomboid panel between them of orange enamel with a rectilinear pattern of scratches on its surface. The stub of a catch plate runs down the centre of the back of the wings. Suggested date: Late Roman, 150-230.Length: 27.9mm, Width: 12.4mm, Thickness (crest of bow): 2.4mm, Weight: 2.31gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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