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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman 'knee' style derivitive brooch, dating to around the second century AD. The brooch consists of the tubular spring box at the top of the bow and a bulbous, hollow swelling separated from the head by a double ribbed collar. It is on this collar that traces of silvering remain. The spring does not remain but iron staining shows that the sping and pin were made of iron. The rest of the bow of the brooch, the foot and the catchplate is also missing. This brooch does not fit particularly well into Mackreth's (2011) knee brooch typology. However, it is with this style that it is most similar, and perhaps displaying most similarities with example No. 7552 (plate 132). It is possible that the double ribbed collar recorded here is a derivitive of the fan-headed examples seen in Mackreth, which are dated to between AD 140 and AD 200. It is possible that this is a continental import.
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