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Description: | Foot and lower part of the bow of a cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The upper part of the bow, pin and head are missing with an old break at the top. The foot is D-shaped in section with a flat back which become hollow above the catchplate giving a C-shaped section. It tapers in width from the break to the foot. At the foot is a large raised oval stud decorated on the front with regularly spaced indented vertical lines. Above the stud the foot is plain. On the bow are three raised vertical ribs running down the length flanked by plain areas with a vertical incised line marking off a narrow border at each side. These end level with the top of the catchplate. On the back is a complete catchplate, sub-trapezoid with a curved upper edge and straight lower edge level with the foot knop. It has a catch curved over 180 degrees along the outside edge but only a small part of this survives with old breaks removing the rest. It is now 43.0mm long, 8.6mm wide, 27.3mm thick including the catchplate and weighs 6.09 grams.Without more of the bow it is difficult to be certain of the brooch type as most are defined by the form of the head, missing in this example. The foot knop and indented decoration is however often found on initial and developed T-shaped brooches which Bayley and Butcher (2004:167) date from the later 1st to mid 2nd century. See SOM-354227 for a similar foot of a brooch and SOM-A86373 for a similar foot knop but with enamel rather than moulded decoration. MacKreth (1974-5:22) illustrates a similar example no.13 from Ilchester.
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