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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Roman Aucissa brooch. Only the head of the brooch includig axis bar and pin survive intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The flat, rectangular headplate has a rolled outer edge that forms a cylindrical casing to hold in place the axis bar. At either end of the axis bar are separately cast copper-alloy knobs that are globular in form with raised collars at their base. At the centre of the headplate is a rectangular pin slot through which hinges the copper-alloy pin. This is cylindrical in form, tapering to a point at one end and with a slight projecting triangular knop on its underside at the headplate/loop. The headplate itself is very worn but has decoration on its front face comprising circular perforations to eiher side (one now incomplete due to old breaks) between which appear to be the remains of at least two stamped leaf-shaped motifs. At the base of the headplate is a transverse groove followed by a moulded transverse ridge beneath which the brooch terminates in old breaks. The entire fragment measures 9.72mm in length (30.77mm including pin), 24.17mm in width and 2.74mm in thickness at axis bar, 14.46mm in width and 1.11mm in thickness at headplate, the pin measures 24.87mm in length, and the entire object weighs 2.28g.This is an incomplete Roman Aucissa brooch of possible continental origin. The prsence of stamped leaf-shaped motifs draws parallels with a similar brooch published by Hattatt (1985: no. 304) and with similar examples noted by him from Colchester and Pannonia (Hattatt, 1985: pp. 53). These indicate a 1st century AD date for the current example c.43-100 AD if not earlier.
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