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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy Roman T-shape brooch dating to around the second half of the 1st century AD. The brooch survives in very good condition with all of its components present.The head has tubular wings, undecorated but for a transverse incision towards the end of each wing on the upper surface. The axis bar is obscured by the wings, but there is no evidence that it is made of anything other than copper alloy. The pin is retained, complete, around the axis bar. It has a pointed oval head and has corroded to a greener colour than the main brooch; the main brooch was of a more highly leaded alloy and is grey in colour. The pin has been bent over time and is no longer retained within the catchplate. Protruding from the front of the head is a small lobe with a rounded end, as opposed to a chain loop (L.: 5.6mm, W.: 2.9mm). It is slightly stepped at its terminal. The wings are below the upper bow, almost perpendicular to it. The lobe is at forty-five degrees to the head, upwards.The upper bow is wide (max. 8.15mm) and is concave on the reverse face. The main field of the upper bow is raised (the edges are stepped) and it is decorated with a pair of moulded lozenges incised diagonally to create squares; the upper lozenge is larger. This decoration is paralleled directly on a T-shape brooch illustrated in Hattatt (2001, 303; ref. 386), although it is reminiscent of enamelled lozenges on other developed T-shape brooches (e.g. Hattatt 1982, 72; ref. 28; Bayley & Butcher 2004, 166; ref. T105/6). These developed T-shape brooches have a south-western bias and can be dated to around the second half of the 1st century AD; cf. HAMP-BF43F1 on this database.The plain, flat leg terminates in a small, raised footknob (W.: 2.7mm). On the reverse, the sub-triangular catchplate survives very well and travels 20.0mm up the leg in total.
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