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Description: | A Roman copper alloy Hod Hill brooch (circa 43-70 AD). Hod hill brooches typically have a hinged pin on an iron axis bar in a tube formed from the top of the bow rolled over. The decoration usually changes in the middle of the bow where there is a band of moulded decoration and then a flat lower bow before terminating in a footknob. On this example there is notched decoration on each side of the bow and much white metal coating remains. The pin is missing. Hod Hill brooches were in common use amongst the military (Webster 2002: 103) Reference: Webster, G. 2002. The Legionary Fortress at Wroxeter. Excavations by Graham Webster, 1955-1985. English Heritage Archaeological Report 19, London. Reference: Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004. Roman Brooches in Britain. The Society of Antiquaries, London. P. 70.
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