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Description: | A copper-alloy Colchester Type B, two piece brooch. The brooch has a broad, flat, centrally ridged bow (63.5 mm in length) which tapers slightly towards a blunt foot. The bow is almost straight, with only slight curvature. The central ridge in the bow is decorated with a single reed from the foot, until it reaches an incised X. From this point on the decoration on the ridge alters from a reed to a further ridge, until it reaches the head. The head of the brooch comprises a set of broad wings (30 mm in width) to obscure the spring, which are semi-cylindrical in section. Within the wings the copper-alloy remains of 5 turns of the spring survive in one side. This passes through a double perforated lug, for attachment to the brooch. The pin is missing. The brooch has a triangular catch plate for the pin which has a triangular perforation. The brooch is Romano-British in date, and such brooches were in use from circa 50 to circa 75 AD. A similar example is illustrated in Hattatt (1985, page 30; fig 257), albeit without the pierced catch plate.
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