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LOT 0728
Roman Tinned Bronze Boar Brooch
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (14.7 grams, 51 mm).
With a deep bow, the footplate formed as the stylised snout of a boar, the neck bristles formed as a band of openwork loops on the bow; hinged pin.
ProvenanceFound Essex.
Property of an Essex, UK, detectorist.
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Tools which cannot be assigned to one of the more specific categories, such as agricultural or military equipment especially knife blades, tool handles, and hones. Three methods of attaching a handle to the tang of a knife or tool are distinguishable in the Roman culter. Rivetting was used on two-piece handles (like in our specimen). Driving the tang into the marrow-cavity of the bone, which was usually packed with wood-shavings, so that the irregularities of cancellous tissue and the wood-shavings prevented the tang from twisting or slipping out (often a collar was also used with this method). Lastly, the tang could be fixed to the handle by means of an iron clip.
