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Description: | A Roman copper-alloy 'Bow-and-fantail' type brooch.The uppermost portion of the head has straight, parallel sides and squared-off ends. Three vertical grooves decorate each end of the head, and there is a damaged chain loop at the centre of the top edge. On the underside of the head is a horizontal cylinder containing the axis bar. The wire pin, which is complete, is hinged via a central slot in this cylinder. The back of the head tapers into the bow, which is of D-shaped cross section, its upper surface decorated by three transverse ridges. A wider moulding separates the bow from the foot. This moulding is hexagonal in plan, its upper and lower halves sloping upwards, meeting at a transverse ridge. Two horizontal bands of red-enamel-filled triangular cells, aligned point-to-point, extend across the surface of this moulding. The foot is of flat section, its slightly concave sides flaring towards the squared-off bottom. A transverse band of three ridges, each separated from the next by a groove, is located immediately below the hexagonal moulding. The shape of the cell occupying the foot mirrors that of the foot itself. In this cell, red enamel surrounds a motif which is located at the base and comprises a pellet above an upturned curve with flaring terminals. A double ridge with central groove surrounds the cell. On the underside of the brooch, the catchplate extends from the top of the foot, widening towards its rolled bottom edge.Length: 44.9mm; maximum width (lower bow): 15mm; depth: 16.9mm. Weight: 13.84g.A similar brooch, albeit lacking the enamelled moulding, was found in excavations at Richborough, Kent, and was assigned a late 1st century AD date (Bayley and Butcher 2004: 100/fig. 79, no. 238).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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