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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative Dolphin type brooch dating to the period c. AD 43-100. The pin,the lower bow,foot and catchplate is missing. The brooch measures 20.43mm in length, maximum width (across the wings) 20.46mm, minimum width 5.84mm and weighs 9.16g.The head has C-shaped wings one of which is missing, the surviving wing is undecorated. In the centre of the wings is an incomplete intergral lug. The wings would have housed the sprung pinned mechanism (now missing). The bow arches back from the head, the bow tapers and terminates in an old break, at the break the bow is broadly circular in cross section.Cf. Hattatt's P299, No 361,359.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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