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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped type and of 2nd century AD date.The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin, chain-loop, catch-plate and foot (with a surviving length of 39.4mm, a surviving depth of 12.2mm and a weight of 9.8g). The missing pin was hinged within tubular wings (with a width of 21.7mm). The fronts of the wings have moulded decoration comprising a wider central groove, flanked each side by narrower grooves. The integral chain-loop on the top of the bow is damaged. The upper bow is of oval section (with a width at the head of 10.2mm and a thickness of 3.8mm) and with straight sides converging slightly to the rounded and worn button. The bow was decorated with six recessed cells, which would have held enamel, probably of two alternating colours. The leg is of sub-triangular section and appears to have had moulded decoration, now worn. The brooch has a dark green surface, recently coated by the finder. Remnant traces of a silvering or tinning survive. The brooch can be generally paralleled with an example found near Salisbury in Wiltshire and recorded by Hattatt (1987, p 104-6, no. 909) , Hattatt (ibid.) records this form as being of Hull's type 109.
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