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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper alloy initial T-shaped brooch. Only the upper part of the brooch survives. The bow flares strongly towards the head. The upper bow appears to have originally features a small tapering central ridge. However, the majority of this has now worn away. The tubular cross bar does not appear to be decorated, although it is fairly corroded so any faint decoration would be difficult to make out. The hinged pin fitting remains in situ, but the pin itself is missing. A similar brooch from Ilchester is described by Mackreth (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: 29.80mm, Width of head: 29.44mm, Thickness of head: 6.51mm, Weight: 4.35g
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