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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative double-pierced lug bow brooch. It is missing the pin, half of the spring, and lower half of the bow and foot due to old breaks. The wings are semi-cylindrical in form, undecorated and separated at their centre by a rear facing double pierced lug that holds in place a separately cast spring chord, axis bar and spring, of which three coils survive. The bow is D-shaped in section with flat back face and rounded front face. The double pierced lug extends forwards onto the bow, which is decorated with an incised central groove flanked by incised notches, before terminating in old breaks. The entire object has a worn green patina with some corrosion in places. It measures 23.07mm in length, 17.39mm in width at wings, 5.37mm in width at bow, 1.86mm in thickness and bow and 3.20g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman Colchester derivative double pierced lug bow brooch. It finds parallels in an example from Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: no. 98) and is of 1st century AD date, c.43-100 AD.
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