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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with no wing caps. One wing is incomplete, and the other is slightly damaged at the terminal, but the terminal does appear to be the original edge. The complete wing is decorated with a pair of transverse linear grooves at the terminal. The axis bar, pin and spring or hinge are all missing. The bow head is hump-like in profile and is quite deep in profile, but slender from the front view. The bow head and bow is undecorated. The bow is sub semi-circular in section and tapers to a blunt point. In profile the bow is a particularly curved 'C' shape with the lower portion being possibly due to damage otherwise the catchplate is in the wrong position to work. On the reverse of the lower portion of the bow there is the remains of an incomplete catchplate. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete light grey/green coloured patina. The brooch is otherwise in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 11.29mm across the wings and 18.41mm long. It weighs 1.5g.The brooch is probably what Hattat (Hattat, R 1985 Iron Age and Roman Brooches Oxbow) describes as a T-shaped type and what Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 159), describe as a Colchester derivative, which they date to the Flavian period, 69-96 AD and into the second century. Hattat (ibid) illustrates a similar example, No. 392.
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