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Description: | Incomplete hinge-headed enamelled brooch of the 1st-2nd century. It weighs 3.22g and measures 24.5x18mm. Part of the pin is missing and the bow is broken, so the leg is absent. It covered in a green patina. Some enamel is present, but it is discoloured. The copper alloy pin, 8mm long, is flat and emerges from a slit in a tubular hinge case 3mm in diameter and 18mm wide. The hinge was also made of copper alloy. The narrower upper part of the bow is 10mm wide and 5mm long. It is decorated with three transverse grooves and two ridges. The enamelled section of the bow is rectangular and 12mm wide. It curves so that it is eventually at right angles to the upper part of the bow. Along the centre of this section are three square (4x4mm) fields for enamel. There may have been further fields beyond the break. In the central field some green enamel remains, although this may be discoloured. The enamel remaining in the other fields is discoloured. Either side of the enamelled field the raised boundaries (parallel to the long sides of the bow) are decorated with shallow transverse grooves. Either side of these are a groove and a ridge.These brooches are embellishments of the Hod Hill type of brooch and continental in origin. They date from the late 1st century till at least the middle of the 2nd century. No close parallels could be found for this brooch. Object 399 (Hattatt 1985) is similar in profile and also has a rectanular enamelled plate, but the decoration and hinge are quite different.
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