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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative rear hook bow brooch. It is missing the wings, spring, pin, foot and catchplate due to old breaks. What survives of the wings suggests they were semi-cylindrical in form and may have been deliberately remove, although this may simply be the result of post-depositional damage. They are separated by an integrally cast rear facing hook. The head of the brooch is oval shaped in section with diagonal grooves on the underside that produce a triangular moulding on the underside of the bow/wings. The bow itself is oval shaped in section, tapering towards the now missing foot. It has extensive moulded relief decoration consisting of a central vertical rib that runs the length of the surviving bow, flanked on either side by broad pointed-oval shaped diagonal ribs. Mid-way down the surviving bow the ribs end, below which the sides of the bow have vertical fluting. The entire brooch has suffered from extensive post-depositional corrosion, damage and pitting, with some of the dark green/brown patina still visible. It measures 47.17mm in surviving length, 13.22mm in width at wings, 9.41mm in width at bow, 7.29mm in thickness at bow, and 20.77g in weight.This is a Roman Colchester derivative rear hook bow brooch. The heavy relief decoration on the front face of the bow draws parallels to an incomplete rear hook brooch from Haverhill, Suffolk (Suffolk HER; J. Plouviez pers. comm.) and an example recorded through the PAS from Suffolk (SF-344333). It is likely to date to the mid-late 1st century AD, c.43-80 AD.
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