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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester type brooch of Roman date. The brooch has semi-tubular wings decorated with vertical grooves and would have held a hinged pin, though this no longer survives. At the top of the head the remains of a decorative cast head loop project although the main body of it has broken away. The bow is wide and rectangular with decorative longitudinal ridges to either side and a central spine. The foot and catchplate no longer remain having been lost to an old break.The metal is a mid reddish-brown colour and survives in good condition. The brooch is 32.1mm long, 18.3mm wide, 4.3mm thick and weighs 7.9g.Similar examples can be seen in Hattatt, p.297, fig.156 and date to circa AD 25 - 60.
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