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Description: | A fragment of a Roman cast copper alloy headstud brooch with hinged pin and moulded decoration on the bow. The wings are both partially broken and only the beginning of the catch plate remains with the foot of the brooch broken off. The pin is also missing and only half of the cylindrical tube, which would have held the hinged pin, remains. All the breaks appear patinated and old.There are two broken and worn ends at the top of the brooch where an integral headloop would have been. The brooch head has rectangular wings, both of which are slightly broken at the ends. They are now 15.3mm across and 6.1mm wide. The wings thin from the bow to the edges in at least two regular steps. On the back of the wings is an integral tube to hold the axis bar with a central slot for the pin to hinge on the bar. Only part of the tube now remains with the outside half completely missing.The bow is oval in section and rises at 70 degrees from the head and curves continuously to the point at which the catchplate begins and here it begins to straighten out to where it would have ended at the foot. On the back of the brooch there is a depression at the top. The bow is decorated with a raised integral headstud with a raised cross in the indented centre on the front of the bow just below the junction with the head. From the headstud to the broken point there is an indented panel running the length of the front of the remaining bow flanked by narrow indented lines and containing a central continuous row of small raised lozenges. The enamel has been completely lost from the recessed areas around the cross on the headstud and in the central panel.Only the beginning, the narrowest part, of the triangular catchplate remains starting approximately half way along the bow.The brooch is now 32.7mm long, 12.8mm thick and the bow is 3.4mm thick and 8.2mm wide. The brooch weighs 5.25 grams.Bailey and Butcher (1994:165-6) suggest that hinged pin headstud brooches are found throughout Britain although in common with other headstud brooches they are much less common in the South than in the Midlands and North. The brooch can however be categorised as a Mackreth headstud brooch group 6 type which is generally found over southern England but with a number of examples also from East Anglia and the western fen margin into Yorkshire (2011, 107). Bailey and Butcher suggest (ibid) they were in use before 100AD and continued in use well into the 2nd century (c.75-175 AD). Mackreth provides (ibid) a very similar date range (c. 75-125 AD). Where analysed (ibid) examples of this form are usually made of bronze or leaded bronze rather than brass. A very similar example is recorded from Somerset on the database, SOM-E144F3. Hattatt (2000: 332) also publishes two similar examples: no.422 (from Norfolk) has a similar headstud and wing decoration while 421 (from Northamptonshire) has the same type of recessed panel on the bow.
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