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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman initial T-shaped brooch. The brooch has a wide, cylindrical head, each end decorated with a cirumferential groove. To the rear is the remains of a hinged iron pin fitting. However, the pin itself is now missing. The bow extends downwards from the centre of the head, tapering gently towards the foot. The bow has a slightly convex outer face and flat reverse. At the head it is decorated with a slight raised vertical ridge on each outer edge, which both taper to an end after around 9.8mm. In the centre is a further vertical ridge around 4.2mm wide, which tapers to an end after around 20.1mm.A similar brooch from Ilchester can be seen in Macreth (in Leach 1982, fig.115, no.9). According to Bayley and Butcher (2004, p.158-9), this early group of T-shaped brooches, which are usually hinged, non-enamelled and lacking the headloop that many of the later T-shaped brooches have, date from the mid to late 1st century AD and appear to be of South-Western manufacture. Length: 33.33mm, Width of head: 35.14mm, Thickness: 4.53mm, Weight: 7.43g
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