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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester bow brooch. It is missing the spring, pin and part of the catchplate due to old breaks. The brooch has short, flat wings that are rectangular in form and separated by the integral spring, which projects backwards and terminates in old breaks. Above the wings is part of an integral forward facing hook that would have originally held the spring/bar in place but now terminates in old breaks. The bow itself is cylindrical in form with slight facetting on all surfaces, tapering to a pointed foot. The back face of the foot has the remains of the integrally cast catchplate, the surviving fragment is semi-circular in form and with the remains of a large square or rectangular perforation. The entire brooch measures 40.18mm in length, 10.08mm in width at wings, and weighs 4.09g. This brooch is Roman in date and of Colchester type dating to the 1st century AD. See Hattatt, 1989: no. 250 for a similar example.
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