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Description: | Roman incomplete cast copper alloy developed T-shaped brooch dating to the late first to early second century AD. The pin, foot part of one wing and part of the head loop are missing. The head has two hollow cylindrical wings, now 20.8mm wide, to hold the axis bar for the hinged pin. One now ends in an old break near the centre. The other tapers in width to the end and is damaged on the front, removing any decoration. Between the wings is a slot in which the pin would have hinged. This is now open to one side as the broken wing has also lost its back. There is an incomplete head loop formed of a solid flat tab at the head which starts at a rectangular projection and expands out into a circular top which was the n drilled and has broken across the circular hole.The bow has a D shaped cross section with a flat back. It projects at 70 degrees from the head then curves round 100 degrees in a continuous curve before bending upwards at the end before the break. this lower bend is part of the later damage. The bow narrows and thins very gradually but consistently towards the break. It has moulded decoration on the front. The upper part by the wings is plain, then about one quarter of the way down the remaining bow is a raised oval pellet with an incised saltire on it. Below this is an indented V-sectioned groove running down the centre of the front. It widens in the middle and ends at another pellet with incised saltire just above the break. The foot of the brooch, the catchplate and the remainder of the bow are lost beyond this point.It is now 46.6mm long, 10.2mm thick and it weighs 6.59 grams.T-shaped brooches are very variable in the decoration on their bows. Bayley and Butler (2004:167) suggest this type is mainly South Western in distribution and dates to the later first - early 2nd century AD (c75-150). Mackreth (2011) illustrates an identical seeming example to this one (plate 65, no.11527) identified as his type 16a which has a distribution mostly in Somerset.
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