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Roman copper alloy zoomorphic brooch
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Leicestershire County Council, Leicvol, 2012-03-16 11:50:54
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Roman copper alloy zoomorphic brooch
Description
English: Roman copper alloy zoomorphic brooch, 13.25mm long, 8.81mm wide, 2.65 mm thick.

The object is in a fair condition and weighs 0.5 grms.This is a fragment of a plate brooch representing the back-end of a hare. The brooch shows a hare facing right, it has a triangular protrusion portraying the tail and is missing its leg. The fragment is filled by an incomplete empty oval shaped enamel cell representing the animals back leg. The reverse is flat with a rectangular casting scar suggesting the presence of a semi-circular lug.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 100 and 200
Accession number
FindID: 494216
Old ref: LEIC-328722
Filename: Bos1752.LEIC-328722.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/374414
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/374414
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/494216
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