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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative double pierced lug bow brooch. It is missing the pin, lower half of the bow, foot and catchplate due to old breaks. The wings are semi-cylindrical in form, undecorated and separated by a rear-facing double pierced lug. This holds in place a separately cast axis bar and spring of six coils, the pin incomplete due to old breaks. The bow is D-shaped in section with flat back face and rounded front face. It has a central vertical ridge extending from the rear lug to run down the middle of the front face, which is decorated with a vertical groove to one side of the ridge. This brooch fragment measures 16.27mm in length, 19.92mm in width at wings, 6.61mm in width at bow, 2.61mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 4.36g.This is a Roman Colchester derivative double pierced lug bow brooch with similar examples noted at Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: nos. 91, 98). These suggest a 1st cenury AD date for the current example, c.43-100 AD.
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