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Description: | Incomplete brooch of copper alloy, probably of the Nertomarus Langton Down type. The surface is corroded and the pin and most of the bow are missing. However, most of the head and spring are present. It measures 20x22mm and weighs 5.45g. The spring is partially enclosed within a broken cylindrical cover, that when complete would have completely enclosed it. Seven turns of the spring survive, and there would have been ten. The front of the cylinder is decorated with three moulded circular indentations arranged in a horizontal line, although the corrosion of the original surface means that the edges of these now appear as ridges. The upper part of the bow is arched and has a central arris and a cross rib where it meets the head. Just before the break, the bow narrows rapidly from 7 to 4mm. It is similar to 270 from West Cambridgeshire (Hattatt 1985), 72 from Richborough (Bayley and Butcher 2004) and NMS-A54510 from Shouldham in Norfolk recorded on the PAS database, although the moulding on the cylinder is different in each case. Bayley and Butcher (2004, pp 150) note that this subdivision of the Langton Down brooch type is rather scarce in Britain and only NMS-A54510 has been recorded on the PAS database to date. Most examples are known from eastern France and western Switzerland where they date to the first half of the 1st century. The four British examples listed by Bayley and Butcher (2004) were recovered from pre-75AD contexts. The rapid narrowing near the break suggests it may alternatively be a Rosette brooch of some varient. These have a similar date range to the Langton Down brooches (Bayley and Butcher 2004, pp 150).
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