Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-6E9719
Object type certainty: Certain
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A small, worn fragment of a copper alloy Roman brooch, probably an initial T-shaped brooch dating to c. AD 50 - 150. Only the head of the bow and the wing casing survives. The wing casing is cylindrical and divided by a central slot for a hinged pin, now missing, the wing casing has no surviving decoration. A portion of the seperately made copper alloy axis bar survives in situ in the right half of the wing case. The bow extends sharply down from the wing casing, at a right angle on the internal face, though the outer is more curved. It is triangular in plan, tapering from the wing case to an old rounded break. The outer face of the bow is convex, whilst the inner is flat. The bow is decorated by a series of five longitudinal lines moulded in shallow relief.
Length: 19.7mm, Width: of wing casing: 18.4mm; of bow just below casing: 11.5mm; of bow at break: 5.8mm, Thickness: at wing casing: 6.0mm; of bow: 3.8mm, Weight: 4.80g.
Bayley & Butcher (2004: 158) illustrate a number of similar initial T-shaped brooches, especially nos. 125 & 130.
Notes:
The object was found on a beach and is very worn.
Class: Initial T-shaped brooch
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.7 mm
Width: 18.4 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 4.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2016 - Saturday 19th November 2016
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Other reference: SCC receipt: 016943
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. | 2004 | Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection | London | The Society of Antiquaries |