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Description: | Copper alloy complete Roman Aesica variant Thistle also known as a Rosette brooch possibly Type X Class B dating from the 1st century AD. It has a round elegant plate in the centre with a Celtic influenced repousse style from which sprouts upwards a short arched fluted bow curving backwards at the top to support tubular wings which contain the spring. Below the plate is a wide fantail -shaped fluted leg, now broken, at the rear of which would have been attached the catch plate. The length is 44mm, the width is 24mm thickness 14mm and the weight 11.82g.Similar examples are illustrated in Hattatt, R. 2000.Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches p.308, fig.167 and are dated to the 1st century AD.Snape (Snape, M.E. 1993 Roman Brooches from North Britain B.A.R. 235) comments that Aesica type brooches were derived from continental thistle or rosette brooches and their findspots are concentrated in the Midlands and central southern England. Macreth (Macreth, D.F. 1973 Roman Brooches Salisbury) suggests they date to c. 60 to c. 80AD.Hattatt, R., 1987 Brooches of Antiquity: a third selection of brooches from the author's collection Oxford : Oxbow Books, , No. 794 Snape, M.E., 1993 Roman Brooches from North Britain: A classification and a catalogue of brooches from sites on the Stanegate Oxford : British Archaeological Reports 235, , Mackreth, D.F., 1973 Roman Brooches Salisbury : Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, ,
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