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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with no wing caps. The wings are 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. At the apex of the bow head and junction with the wings there is an integral hook pointing towards the reverse of the wings. This hook would have originally held the chord in place. The bow head and bow is undecorated. The bow is sub semi-circular in section and tapers to a blunt point which may be a broken point as only the reverse only a fragment of the catchplate is visible. The surface of the brooch has a dark grey matte coloured patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 17.75mm across the wings and 30.66mm long. It weighs 3.4g.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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