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Unique ID: HAMP-851675
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete cast copper-alloy zoomorphic Roman plate brooch in the form of a horse in profile galloping to the right. The brooch is missing its pin, and the 'horse' much of its tail and head. The creature is delicately cast, with thin fore and hind legs, stepped to delineate joints. The breaks at the tail suggest that it would have been knotted. The mane and ear are delineated by grooves. There are two main, thin cells within the body of the horse: one lowermost, the other above, extending back to the haunches and round on itself into the hind leg of the horse. At the fore end there are five small, sub-rectangular cells which continue the line of the second main cell described. They can also be found on a broken horse brooch from Norfolk illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 358; ref. 1181) and also on a brooch from Leicestershire recorded on this database (ref.: LEIC-4E2603), where they are enamelled. On the lower surface is an abraded catchplate towards the front of the horse. At the rear of the horse is a double pin lug. Between the lugs is a three-coiled spring and chord retained around the axis bar. As well as its losses the brooch has suffered some further damage to the head which has been pressed downwards slightly.
Class:
Plate
Sub class: Horse
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.3 mm
Width: 27.9 mm
Thickness: 1.95 mm
Weight: 3.55 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 9th March 2008
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Other reference: E2379
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU4524
Four figure Latitude: 51.013626
Four figure longitude: -1.359899
1:25K map: SU4524
1:10K map: SU42SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 359 | 1181 |