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Dolphin brooch roman
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Megan Gard, 2020-01-23 14:39:47
Title
Dolphin brooch roman
Description
English: A fragment of Roman copper-alloy bow brooch. One wing,  the spring mechanism and upper bow remain. The lower bow, catch plate and pin are missing. The remaining cylindrical wing is decorated with single incised, vertical groove at the end end. The spring pin remains and consists of four coils, this terminates at an old break where the pin would have projected. The remnant of the bow is  D-shaped in cross section and tapers to the break. It is decorated with eight converging longitudinal ribs. 

Length: 18.97 mm,
Width: 20.41 mm,
Weight: 6.03 g.

Similar brooches can be seen in Hattatt (2000) p 298, fig 157
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 44 and 420
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 982921
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1089413
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1089413/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/982921
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 2 December 2020)
Object location51° 36′ 59.4″ N, 1° 31′ 54.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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