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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy 'keyhole' type rosette brooch, early-mid 1st century AD. The spring and pin are missing but there are small parts of the spring held with iron corrosion in the semi-cylindirical wings. Broken hook to hold the chordb at the top of the head. Plain wings except for a narrow transverse ridge at the end of the left wing. The bow consists of a large flat circular disc with a flat sub-rectangular foot below which is angled inwards at c. 45°; the outer surface of the the disc and foot is roughened - there was probably an ornate applied plate over it originally. Damaged pierced catchplate on the reverse of the foot (length of catchplate 19mm, diameter of circular piercing 2.9mm). Length 48.8mm, width across wings 31.4mm, width across disc 32.5mm, width across foot 24mm, thickness across disc 2.1mm, weight 26.64g.See Hattatt's Visual Catalogue p 309, fig. 168, no. 285 for a similar brooch, from the 'East Midlands', although the lower half of the bow is not angled.
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