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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy initial T-shaped brooch with hinged pin dating to c. AD 60-100. The brooch head has open-ended cylindrical wings, 30.6mm wide, containing a circular-sectioned axis bar for the hinge. One end is almost closed apart from the tip of the bar, which appears to be iron; the other end is filled with a white substance, probably solder. The wings are each decorated with two pairs of U-sectioned transverse grooves flanking a broader central U-sectioned groove. There is a large transverse slot through the centre of the underside of the head, between the wings, where the pin hinges. The head of the pin remains in this slot on the axis bar. The head is a triangular flat plate from one corner of which projects the stub of the pin; most of the pin is missing to an old break.The bow is D shaped in section with a flat back. It rises at c.90 degrees to the head before curving over 90 degrees to the foot. The upper part is more curved and the lower part of the bow originally ran relatively straight to the foot. The lower part is now bent to one side. The bow tapers in width and thickness gradually but consistently to the pointed foot which is broken with a worn break. The upper part is decorated with two cast concentric raised triangles and a central raised line. The edges of the raised triangles and lines are emphasised by indented grooves. The point of the outer triangle is about a third of the way down the bow below which it is plain. There is the upper end of the integral catchplate attached to the back of the bow, it has a curved upper edge and a broken lower edge level with the broken foot. The break is irregular and it may suggest there was a hole pierced in the catchplate or it had openwork. The brooch is 40.5mm long, 13.6mm thick and weighs 6.66 grams.Bailey and Butcher (2004:158) illustrate similar pieces although with a range of different moulded decoration and suggest a Flavian or slightly earlier context. Hattatt (2000:304) illustrates an example with similar moulded decoration, no.1520, although with sawtooth edges and a shorted, narrowed foot.
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