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Description: | A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs).At the head one half of the cylinder has been lost. The other half, formed by rolling the terminal back round on itself, retains the copper-alloy axis bar (L.: 14.0mm) corroded in place. It is the left hand half, when looking at the brooch in plan, head uppermost, which remains. Below the cylinder the head incurves to a minimum width of 4.9mm just above the bow.The main body of the brooch is like a truncated lozenge in form, and features a pair of decorative knobs, one either side, between the centre and lower edge of the bow. Both are thin and insubstantial and appear to have suffered some abrasions. On its upper surface the bow is decorated by a pair of wide longitudinal grooves which create a narrow central ridge and are flanked on either side by the higher side knob areas. The central ridge appears to feature a pair of parallel punched rows of circles. The lower bow narrows to a width of 5.55mm. There is a probable groove and double ridge at the junction of bow and leg.The rectangular leg is seemingly plain and is now abraded at its (now) rounded tip. On the lower surface is a highly abraded sub-triangular catchplate. This extends for 19.9mm up the leg. The brooch has a patchy mid-dark green patina. It retains its original curve in profile despite the losses and abrasions it has suffered.Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type.
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