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Description: | Head and bow of a devolved T-shaped brooch of local type with an expanded fan shaped head plate. The head is a flat fan (D-shaped) plate.At the top of the curve of the fan are the remains of a probable loop, now broken close to the plate. Along the straight lower edge of the plate is a cylinder with a central slot.The cylinder holds the bar on which the pin hinged, pivoting in the slot. The slot is now partially obscured with iron corrosion suggesting the hinge and pin were made of iron. The pin is missing. The bow extends from the lower part of the centre of the head. The bow is broadly a pointed oval in section with a slightly convex front and back. The bow rises at 90 degrees form the head then curves over sharplybefore ending in an old break. It is even in width down to the breakand the catchplate and foot has been lost. The front of the bow appears to be plain with no moulded or incised decoration. It is now 33.9mm long, 25.4mm wide at the wings, 9.9mm at the bow and 16.9mm thick; it weighs 10.24 grams.This is a local variant, type T140, which develops the T-shaped brooches with cylindrical hinged heads, possibly as a local response to Trumpet headed brooches. Similar examples with varying decoration on the bow were recorded from 1st to 2nd century contexts at Nettleton, Wiltshire (Wedlake 1982:125-7, no.48 and 49). Wedlake (ibid) quotes examples from Radstock and Camerton while Bayley and Butcher (2004:167-8) suggest it is a south western type dating to the 2nd century.
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