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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Late Roman/ Early Early-Medieval (AD 300-500) penannular brooch of Fowler's Type D7, missing its pin. The frame is circular in section and between 2.64 and 2.89mm in diameter. The frame is now bent out of shape a little and measures 38.02x39.99. The brooch weighs 4.46g.The two terminals of the brooch have been flattened and widened, so that a 'foot' with three toes extends at right angles to the frame. Triangular grooves cut on the uppermost edge define the toes. The feet are 3.70mm high and c.2mm thick.Although pitted, the dark grey/ green patina is mostly intact.Hattatt describes this type of brooch as the simplified form of the proto-zoomorphic type. This brooch is comparable with Hattatt 1291 from Burgh Castle, Norfolk, although the Norfolk brooch has more angular and pointed toes, and WILT-C52454 on this database. Fowler suggests this type is post-Roman and 5th century in date (Fowler 1960, p.153). Bayley and Butcher (2004, pp,142-3) illustrate a similar example (no.434) which they describe as Hull's type P12 'The ends developed upwards and variously shaped' and possibly sub-Roman (M.E. Snape, 1992).
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