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Description: | An incomplete Roman bow brooch, probably a Lnagton Down brooch although perhaps a Rosette Brooch. Only a small portion of the wing casing and the upper parts of the bow survive intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. What remains of the wings are cylindrical in form and undecorated, terminating in all directions in old breaks. The bow itself is flat backed with a moulded, and possibly reeded, front face that has a prominent central rib to produce an almost triangular cross section. To either side of the ridge the front face is fluted, but the preservation of the object makes close identification of the precise form the decoration took impossible. This fragment measures 12.62mm in length, 18.02mm in width at casing, 2.98mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 2.49g.This small fragment is probably from a Roman Langton Down brooch. However, the similarities between Langton Down brooches and the contemporary Rosette brooches makes distinguishing between the two on the basis of this small fragment highly problematic. Whichever it may belong to the fragment is of 1st century AD date, c.25-65 AD.
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