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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy T-shaped brooch with hinged pin dating to c. AD 60-160. The lower part of the bow, the foot and the catchplate are missing. The brooch head has open-ended cylindrical wings and the very ends of both of these have been broken. There is evidence of iron corrosion on the broken ends of the wings indicating that the axis bar would have been iron. There is a deep groove between the two wings where the copper alloy, circular section wire pin still remains. The pin is not however complete and is broken towards the end of the pin. This break is likely to be old, as indicated by the patination.The bow is a flattened D shape in section with a flat back and slightly convex front. It begins to curve at c.90 degrees from the head before curving steeply over again at c. 90 degrees before straightening out towards the worn break. The bow tapers very slightly in width and in thickness to the break. The brooch is simply decorated at the top of the bow with an incised triangle and a deep indented circle with possible remnants of enamelling. There are also incised lines emphasing the junction between the wings and the bow. The brooch is now 22.6mm long, 26.1mm wide at the wings, 11.1mm thick and weighs 6.14 grams.Bayley and Butcher (2004, 159 and 167) describe initial T-shaped brooches as 'usually hinged, not enamelled but sometimes with fine relief decoration and lacking a headloop.' whilst Developed T-shaped brooches are described as usually hinged with a narrow and 'undecorated tube holding the axial bar', with 'enamelled decoration in simple lozenge, rectangular or triangular cells' and a headloop. This example appears to be a transitional type as it fits into the initial T-shaped brooch description, including the hinged pin and lacking the headloop, as well as the later Developed T-shaped with enamelled decoration and undecorated wings. The closest parallel to this brooch is an example illustrated in Mackreth, brooch number 2781 (2000,66) with enamelled decoration although the brooch here does not have the same molding on the head. The date provided for the brooch therefore spans the period recognised for both brooch types, beginning in the mid-1st-century and continuing through to the mid 2nd-century (Bayley and Butcher 2004, 159 and 167).
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