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Roman dragonesque brooch (front and reverse)
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Vic Allnatt, 2016-07-25 21:41:00
Title
Roman dragonesque brooch (front and reverse)
Description
English: An incomplete copper alloy dragonesque brooch dating to the Roman period (AD 75 -AD 175).

Only one of the 'heads' of the brooch remains. This fragment is curvilinear in formwith a diamond shaped eye with an incised rounded pellet in the centre. Theother end of the brooch (the 'neck') has a broken terminal.The reverse is flat with a damaged protruding forked terminal. The fragment has a mid-green coloured patina across all surfaces. The front face has a smooth surface and the forked terminal at the rear has been heavily abraded. Often this type of brooch was enamelled.

A dragonesque brooch can be seen illustrated in Bayley and Butcher (2004:125) no 350. Bayley and Butcher suggest this type of brooch occurs in some northern forts and in non-military contexts in the North, Midlands and East Anglia with fewer in the South. A complete example can be seen on the PAS database, SWYOR-279501 was discovered in North Yorkshire and LANCUM-B5C813 discovered in Wiltshire.

The brooch measures 30.37mmlength, 14.56mm width, 12.39mm thick including the terminal at the rear and weighs 6.6 grams.

Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., (2004) Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection.London: Society of Antiquaries.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date between 75 and 175
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FindID: 786386
Old ref: WMID-71E3C7
Filename: WMID71E3C7.jpg
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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/576563
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/576563/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/786386
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 21 November 2020)
Object location52° 52′ 50.16″ N, 2° 18′ 00.68″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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