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The British Museum, Michael Byard, 2019-12-16 17:45:23 |
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BROOCH |
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| Description |
English: An incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester type brooch, dating to the period AD 25 - 60. It has a winged head with an intact spring and pin, however the foot is missing. The wings of the brooch survive to 15.2mm wide. They are each made of shallow crescent plates, being convex on the front, concave on the back and lacking end caps. A D-shaped attachment lug projects from the centre of the wings and the back of the head. This has two perforations, one close to its centre and another place just above the tips of the wings. A copper alloy axis bar is threaded through the central hole. A spring wraps around the copper alloy axis bar. It consists of a copper alloy wire with three coils on its left side (seen from the front of the brooch) and threefurther coils on its right linked by an overhead chord threaded through the upper piercing of the lug. The pin projects from the innermost of the right hand side's coils before terminating in a transverse break. The pin circular in cross section. The bow of the brooch projects from the front of the wings with a width of c.4.0mm and only slightly narrows down its length to c.3mm where it terminates in an abraded transverse break. The bow is D-shaped in cross section being convex on the upper surface and flat on its reverse. The front of the bow has an incised central line for decoration. The brooch is a light green colour. The brooch is 25.74mm long, 15.2mm wide, 1.91mm thick and weighs 3.04 grams. Bailey and Butcher (2004; 84) date this type to the mid first century c.AD 40-65. Similar examples are illustrated by Hattat (2000: 297) No.260 and Mackreth (2011: 37, Pl. 34) No. 1255. All define this type as a Colchester one piece brooch, although Mackreth groups it under the term Colchester Derivative Harlow spring system. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Oxfordshire | ||
| Date | between 25 and 60 | ||
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FindIdentifier: 985605 |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1085528 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1085528/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine |
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