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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman two-piece Colchester type brooch, dating to the 1st century AD. The remains of the brooch consists of a short plain crossbar and lightly arched, undecorated and tapering body with a sub-triangular cross section, ending in an undecorated foot. Remains of a rearward hook or simple lug, similar to those of the Colchester one-piece type, can be seen above the cross bar; however iron corrosion around that area and behind the crossbar where the spring would have been located suggests that the missing spring, axial bar and pin were manufactured from a separate segment of iron instead of copper alloy. A thin vertical catchplate can be seen, but it is uncertain what percentage of the plate is missing. The brooch measures 80.6 mm long, 17.56 mm wide (max), 3.28 mm thick (max) and weighs 5.19 grams.For a similar example cf. Hattatt 2007, Fig. 156, No. 1455; Cf. also Bayley and Butcher 2004, Fig. 65.
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