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Description: | Head of a devolved T-shaped brooch of local type with a expanded fan shaped head plate. The head is a fan (D shaped) plate with a concave back and convex front with a slight carination running vertically down the centre. Along the straight lower edge is a cylinder with a central slot, this cylinder holds the bar (spindle) on which the pin hinged, pivoting in the slot, the head of the pin remains in place. There is damage to one end of the cylinder but it is otherwise complete; it appears to be filled with a white substance, probbly solder holding the spindle in place. Around the upper edge the plate is stepped in slightly on the front. This thinned border is decorated with an incised zig-zag line and is expanding at the centre into a large circular loop which projects from the top. The bow extends from the lower part of the centre of the head, above the slot and cylindrical cover. It is D shaped in section with a flat back and has broken away with an old break.It is now 23.6mm long, 24.2mm wide and 11.9mm thick; it weighs 5.59 grams.This is a local variant, type T140, which develops from the T-shaped brooches with cylindrical hinged heads, possibly as a local response to Trumpet headed brooches. Similar examples with varying decoration on the bow were recorded from 1st to 2nd century contexts at Nettleton, Wiltshire (Wedlake 1982:125-7, no.48 and 49). Wedlake (ibid) quotes examples from Radstock and Camerton while Bayley and Butcher (2004:167-8) suggest it is a south western type dating to the 2nd century. SOM-B6D415, SOM-EE4922 and SOM-EE00E2 on this database are similar.
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