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Description: | An incomplete late Iron Age/ early Roman rosette or thistle brooch dating to c.AD 20-60. It consists of the tubular head/spring cover, the bow and much of the plate and foot, all apparently cast as one. The head, which is 20.9mm wide, is missing much of its tubular covering which would have held the spring in place, and now the spring and pin are missing entirely. This narrows into the arched bow, 23.4mm long, 13.7mm wide and 1.9mm thick, which has been flattened slightly. The bow is decorated with moulded vertical ridges, with a horizontal band at its base where it meets the middle of the plate. The flat plate would have been circular, however loss to the upper half renders its shape irregular: it is 27.85mm wide, 24.8mm long and 2.1mm thick. Crescentic decoration springs from the base of the bow in the form of five radiating spikes within a dashed semi-circular border. Below the circular plate a triangular fragment of the foot extends, probably bearing similar decoration to the bow, although wear has made this difficult to ascertain. To the reverse of the plate and extending c.20mm down to the foot, a fragment of the curled catchplate remains. The reverse is undecorated. In total the brooch is 49.7mm long, c.9mm thick and weighs 11.68g.Similar thistle brooches are illustrated in Hattatt (1989), p.308, fig.167, particularly no.278.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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