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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman T-shape brooch, dating to the 1st or 2nd Century AD. The foot, pin and catchplate are missing. At the head are two tubular side wings, formed from one long hollow cylinder which holds the iron axis bar. At the centre of this is a slot for the pin, only the hinge-piece of which survives. The side wings are decorated with matching grooves. The bow arches gently from the head and narrows towards a mid point, from where it tapers gently to an old break at the base: the foot is missing. Above this mid-point the bow is decorated with vertical grooves; below the bow is smooth and undecorated. The reverse is plain and the catchplate is missing entirely. There is some rust along the tube which holds the axis bar. The brooch is 38.0mm long, 29.0mm wide at the head and 4.2mm wide at the break. It is 10.5mm thick and weighs 7.35g. Similar T-shape brooches are illustrated in Hattatt (2000), p.302, fig.161, in particular no.907. These the author dates to the 1st or 2nd Century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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