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Description: | a copper alloy incomplete Roman bow brooch. The spring case is semi-clindrical, with the ends folded in to enclose part of the spring of six coils . The pin is missing. The bow is flat, 11.05mm wide with a single central broad rib 5.7mm wide. It is attached to the centre of a rosette plate with moulded decoration consisting of an inner band of radiating lines, and then of concentric rings and grooves. The rosette is a flat disc with incomplete edges, and the top of the disc is a straight edge, not joined to the spring case. The foot of the brooch is missing, and the start of the catchplate can be determined on the reverse of the disc.The brooch measures 45.79mm in surviving length and is 18.3mm wide across the spring case, and 29.55mm wide across the rosette disc. It weighs 16.17g. This type of brooch dates to the first half of the first century AD . Hattatt 1984 illustrates similar brooches, fig.167 nos 783 and 278.
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