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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman brooch, probably of strip bow type, c. 1st century AD. The wings, neck and part of the bow are complete. It would appear the bow has broken off halfway down, and the footend, catchplate, hinge and pin are all missing. The pin would have been hinged in the narrow tube formed at the top of the bow, which was rolled backwards and would have been allowed movement through the central gap in this tube; the bow is a broad reeded sub-rectangular strip, which probably flared slightly near the foot although that portion is now missing. The brooch has a nearly flat profile below the slight angle at its head. The only decoration is on the outer surface of the body, which has three incised lines running vertically, with the central one wavy and the flanking ones straight. It has an overall brownish-green colour and patina. The length of the fragment is 32.32mm. The width of the wings are 16.34mm. The width of the neck is 6.48mm. The width of the bow at the top is 8.90mm and then at the bottom just above the break is 7.45mm. The thickness of the bow is 1.94mm. The brooch weighs 3.40grams.Cf. Bayley and Butcher 2004, fig. 61; for discussion, Ibid., p154. According to Bayley and Butcher, many of these simple strip bow brooches were likely to predate the Conquest and may have later been an indication of local Romano-British production.
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