File:1st Century Roman Dolphin bow brooch (FindID 790920).jpg

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1st Century Roman Dolphin bow brooch
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Kent County Council, Walter (Jo) Ahmet, 2016-06-16 17:00:30
Title
1st Century Roman Dolphin bow brooch
Description
English: An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Colchester-derivative brooch with a double-pierced lug type, dating 43-100 AD.

Description:

The outer face of the humped bow has a raised line running alonge each side of the bow with two high raised ribs flanking a central third which may have been silvered or tinned and the underside is flat. The brooch foot is missing, this part of the brooch having broken off and the break patinated and worn.The wings are crescent shaped in cross section and holds half a copper-alloy axis bar, the right half is either missing or was never present. The front of each wing is decorated with a baluster moulding flanked by a band of incised oblique lines. The sprung copper-alloy pin remains only as its spring which is complete under the wings, the pin having snapped at the head. The brooch is patinated light green/turquoise colour typical of copper-alloy.

Measurements: 28.74mm long, 35.2mm wide, 14.17mm thick and 13.26g in weight.

Discussion:

Similar brooches are recorded from Hacheston, Suffolk (Plouviez 2004, 95-97, fig. 64), Hattat, 2000 Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, (2000), fig. 157 nos. 1508, 885 and 888. Compare also ESS-C50EF7 and FASW-371BE4.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date between 43 and 100
Accession number
FindID: 790920
Old ref: KENT-2CBC29
Filename: KENT2CBC29.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/571036
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/571036/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/790920
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License
Object location51° 24′ 34.2″ N, 0° 21′ 10.99″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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