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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Headstud brooch of Roman date (AD 75 - AD 200). Length: 23.8mm; width: 16.7mm. Weight: 6.44g.The brooch is incomplete and probably misshapen. The lower part of the bow, the majority of the pin and the majority of the chain loop are missing due to old breaks.At the head of the brooch are two stubs which constitute the remains of the chain loop. The diminutive wings have a combined width of 16.7mm but the end of the right wing, as viewed from the front, is missing at the rear. The wings are flat at the front and convex at the rear, having characteristic decorative vertical grooves at the front. The bow fully encloses a copper alloy axis bar which secures a small portion of the hinged copper alloy pin which is situated well off-centre! About half of the axis bar survives. The upper part of the bow has a width of 7.0mm and tapers to the old transverse break where the width is 5.1mm. At the top, the bow is convex at the front and slightly concave at the rear but as the bow extends downwards it becomes convex on both the front and rear. Decoration on the front of the bow consists of a circular headstud below which there is a moulded triangle and lozenge pattern forming small cells that probably were filled with enamel. However, no enamel has survived within the headstud or in the cells. In side profile the bow is very strongly arched although this may be because it was bent whilst in the soil.The brooch is heavily corroded and does not posses a patina. It is mainly covered with loose light green copper alloy corrosion deposits.A very similar brooch from Owmby, Lincolnshire has been recorded by Hattatt. See Hattatt 1982. 'Ancient and Romano-British Brooches' 78. fig. 27b, ref. 36.Another similar brooch from Corbridge is illustrated in Collingwood and Richmond 1976. 'The Archaeology of Roman Britain'. 296, fig. 103, ref. 42. Many similar headstud brooches are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see find: IOW-562891 from Shalfleet Parish, Isle of Wight.
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