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Description: | Copper alloy brooc, Aesica variant type. Missing spring, pin; some damage to fantail foot and to catchplate. The spring was held by a short broad rear hook and there are slight traces of possible solder in the wing backs. The wings have an angled and a terminal groove. The bow and foot comprise a single flat-backed piece of which the upper part is lozenge-shaped in outline, with the upper corner joined to the centre front of the wings. There are small flat projections at the side corners. Three steps take the lozenge in diminishing areas upwards to a central circular knob - total thickness of the bow at the knob is 6.2mm. There is faint incised rocker decoration on the first step but not on the others. The bow expands below the lozenge to a fantail foot outline; this has single grooves along the sides, centre and bisecting the gap, each with incised rocker decoration along the line. Width (wings) 16mm, length 34mm. The rear hook Aesica types are probable East Anglian products in the 1st century, and this lozenge type is a small subgoup of these. A very similar one is recorded from Lakenheath (LKH 177).
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