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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch, which is probably a T-shaped type. The brooch is incomplete. The wings are cylindrical and have been decorated with two diagonal incisions. The wings have a central slot on the reverse to allow the pin to be hinged on the the axis bar within the wings. The pin is missing. The bow head is slightly hump-like and is sub-rectangular in section. The apex of the bow head is decorated with a lozengeform protrusion. The bowhead continues to the bow and tapers to a broken edge below the approximate midpoint. The break is not recent as the patina covers it. The lower portion of the bow is decorated triangular cells which would have contained. The surface of the brooch has a mid to dark green patina, the surface of the brooch has been tinned.It measures 21.5mm long, 22.45mm wide, 9.5mm thick and it weighs 3.9g.T-shaped brooches can be highly decorated with cells and enamel, others are less decorated. T-shaped brooches appear to be manufactured in the West Country (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 159) and are found in contexts date to c. 55 to 90
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