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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Late Iron Age to Early Roman brooch of Langton Down type dating from early to mid 1st Century AD. The pin is missing, and both ends of the cylindrical cover that hold the spring are slightly damaged, otherwise it is complete. The cover is open ended and would appear to be formed from one flat sheet curved round and pinched together. The head measures 21.8 mm wide. Below the cover, the brooch is decorated with two lightly-incised parallel lines. The bow rises level with the head and then bends at 90 degrees to form a straight bow. Descending from the bend, the brooch body widens into a flat end, which has curved sides; its body is completely flat in cross-section. The catchplate is vertically-oriented with an outer curved edge to hold the pin, now missing. The brooch measures 31.48 mm long, 12.78 mm wide at the top of the bow, tapering to 7.22 mm wide at the foot; it weighs 7.70 grams. The brooch has an overall medium-green colouration. Cf. Hattatt 2007, Fig. 165, no. 773.
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