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Description: | Check findspotRoman cast copper alloy Knee brooch variant with hinged pin and divided bow. Only the head and upper part of the bow survives, the rest is lost to an old break. The head is formed on a rectangular bar, 18.6mm long, slightly convex on the front and concave on the back. Slightly off centre on the back are two lugs with rounded tops drilled to hold a separate copper alloy spindle between them. In the gap between the lugs, on the spindle, appears to be part of the head of the pin, now corroded in place. The upper part of the bow is divided into two bars with a slot between. They rise from the lower edge of the head and are almost semicircular in profile. The bars are triangular in section but flattened to a thin plate at either end. They have broken just below they point the flattened ends join together forming a rectangular plate. The fragment is 21.3mm long, 9.7mm thick excluding the lugs, 14.9mm including and weighs 4.26 grams.While the bow form is similar to P-shaped brooches the use of a hinged pin rather than a spring suggest it is not a P-shaped brooch but a Knee brooch varient. Hattatt (2000: 336) illustrates two very similar examples, no.1229 and no.1401 both from Salisbury, Wiltshire suggesting a local variant. Knee brooches are similar to date, to p-shape brooches, AD 150-250 verses AD 175-250, and the form of the latter may have influenced this variant.
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