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Description: | A copper alloy fragment of a headstud brooch dating to the 1st - 2nd Century. The fragment consists of the brooch head, upper bow and the hinge mechanism. The head is largely undecorated except for horizontal indented lines on the sides of the wings. Above the head there is the remains of the chain ring. The ring remains are attached to the brooch on a three tiered projection, the middle band is decorated with vertical curvilinear incised lines. On the reverse, both sides of the hinge are present, but the axis bar is corroded. The bow of the brooch is decorated with the headstud itself, the lower part of the bow is missing. The beginning of the catchplate can be seen on the reverse. The entire pin is missing. The surface is a dark yellowish-green and has a small amount of corrosion. This brooch fragment dates to the 1st - 2nd Century AD (See: Hattatt, p333, fig.192, 420).
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