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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Wroxeter type (Hull's corpus type 151) and of 2nd century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the lower part of the leg, the chain-loop and the spring (with a surviving length of42.0mm, a surviving depth of 16.1mm and a weight of 12.1g). The brooch employed an open spring mechanism with the axis bar secured by lateral lugs and probably with the chord tensioned beneath. The head is D-shaped (14.3mm wide) with an elaborate head plate (21.9mm long) and integral chain-loop, now damaged. The head-plate comprised perforations with raised borders forming opposing C-shaped devices, with the chain-loop at the apex (2mm diameter). The upper bow has straight sides which converge slightly towards the leg (8.8mm wide at the head and 4.9mm wide at the break on the leg) and is of sub-rectangular section (7.4mm thick at the head). The front of the bow is decorated with two vertical cells to hold enamel, with the remnant traces of enamel, now coloured yellow and green or turquoise and is likely to have had alternating coloured squares of enamel. At the base of the enamelled columns is a circular stud with a central recessed cell. The leg is of D-shaped section with straight sides converging slightly to the break (with a minimum width at the break of 5.0mm). Near the top of the leg are lentoid pellets on each side and the sides were enhanced with a grooved border. The rear of the leg has the remnants or the start of the catch-plate, surviving as an expanding rib (with a thickness of 6.8mm at the break). The surface is pale green with a black deposit covering much of the surface, possibly from burning.The brooch can be paralleled with an example recovered from the Dorset-Hampshire border and recorded by Hattatt (1987, p 146, no. 982) , which has a similar head-plate but the bow has three enamelled columns and is without the stud at the base of the bow.
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