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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy hinged Roman T-shaped brooch with a bow that is triangular in plan and semi-circular in section with a hollow bow that has a recess that is 7 mm wide and 5 mm deep at the back. The front of the bow has a raised square facet at the head end and another on the bow with a recessed area in between the two. The square facet on the head is 7.2 mm by 7.2 mm and the smaller one on the bow is 3.4 mm by 3.4 mm, and the recessed area may have held enamel. The height of the mouldings decreases from 3 mm at the head to 1 mm on the bow, but the brooch is too worn beyond this point to see if it continued. The more complete of the two wings is incised with seven parallel transverse grooves that run around the circumference of the tube from the head to the terminal. The broken edges of both tubular wings expose the copper alloy spindle within and there is also part of the hinge that encircled the spindle in the gap in the centre at the back of the head of the brooch. The pin, catchplate and the foot of the brooch are all missing.Hattatt (2000) illustrates a hinged T-shaped brooch with similar faceted mouldings and another with raised and recessed squares on the head and bow on pages 302-3, figs.161-2, nos.394 & 386, which are dated from the 1st to the 2nd century AD.Bayley and Butcher (2004) illustrate a hinged T-shaped brooch with a similar ribbed moulding from the head to half way down the bow on page 158, fig.127, no.T135, which is dated from the mid to late 1st 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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