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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman Langton Down type brooch, with elements of Hull's Classes A and B. The chord of the spring survives but the coils and pin do not. The brooch is very thin and the catchplate, although complete, is a little crumpled.The head is cylindrical and consists of two parts of metal extending from the front of the head, curling around at the back to house the spring. These are damaged and do not meet thoguh presumably they would have, or almost, originally. To one side the head is damaged and it is apparantly undeorated, although as all patina has been lost it is not for certain. The head measures 18.8mm wide and would have originally been c.20mm wide.The brooch is 70.4mm in length and the bow 12.6mm wide where it extends from the head, narrowing slightly in the middle to 9mm before widening a little to 9.4mm at the foot. The bow is very thin (1mm thick) and decorated with a pair of grooves running down the middle of the bow from head to foot.To the reverse the catchplate is large (22mm long) and extends from the centre of the bow. It has a single piercing 2mm in diameter roughly at the centre.The Langton Down type originated in Gaul before the conquest and arrived here soon after.Weighs 7.34g.
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