Roman Brooch, Treryn Dinas, Penberth Cove and Treen Cliff, St Levan Sites

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Find spot of incomplete Roman Brooch, found by field walker in August 2006 on Treryn Dinas

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Roman Brooch found by walker, Matthew Whiting, near Logan Rock and reported to Portable Antiquities Scheme at Royal Cornwall Museum. Retained by finder. The PAS form records: Cast copper alloy incomplete Roman headstud brooch with a stud on the front of the bow as well as at the top of the head between the wings. There is also what looks like the base of a headloop. The wings are badly corroded. It is impossible to say what they would have looked like and how long they were, but there appears to be a transverse moulded ridge on the left wing just beyond the junction of the bow and wing. The lower half of the bow and the foot are missing, as is the iron pin, apart from the remains of the hinge end, set into the back of the wings.

Length 30mm; Width 23mm, thickness 8.4mm; weight 7.55 grams

From the profile and the potential length of the wings, this could also be a T-shaped brooch.

Hattatt (R Hattatt, 2000, A visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches) illustrates a T-Shaped brooch on page 303 No 404 which bears similariities, dated from the 1st to the 2nd century AD, and a headstud brooch on page 333, No 942, dated to the 2nd century AD.

Butcher ( Sarnia Butcher, 2001, Roman Nornour, Isles of Scily: a Reconsideration) illustrates some unusual examples from Nornour on the Isales of Scilly, on page 25, Fig 9, Nos 313 and 314.

Quinnell (Henrietta Quinell, 2004, Trethurgy:Excavations at Trethurgy Round, St Austell) illustrates a similar T-shaped brooch with a headstud on page 70, Fig 46, No2 which is dated from the 1st to the 2nd century AD

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