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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch, probably of Roman simple 'strip bow' brooch type and attributed to the first century AD. The brooch consists of a simple rearward-curling cylindrical pin cover, divided into two pieces with a central notch to facilitate pin movement. Following the cylindrical pin cover the brooch progresses into a simple sub-triangular brooch body and undecorated foot. The brooch does not seem to have a catchplate on the reverse surface; rather the seems that the outer edges of the foot were slightly hammered backwards to perhaps keep the pin-end roughly in place. It is possible that this omission is due to mis-casting as it is common for these types of brooches to have at least a simple catchplate and this is further suggested by the presence of an irregular sub-circular globule of copper alloy in this position. The sub-triangular brooch body is decorated with tiny repeating chevrons running in three vertical bands most of the way down the brooch body, alternating with plain bands in between. This decoration is truncated by two incised horizontal bands, followed by a single ring-and-dot design near to the foot-end. The foot is plain. A small portion of a possibly iron pin bar is still intact in one side of the cylindrical cover, but the rest of the pin bar and pin itself is missing; a large degree of iron staining on the reverse surface near the head further suggests that the pin was composed of iron. The brooch is of an overall even dark green patina. It measures 45.4 mm long, 11 mm wide at head, 1.3 mm maximum thickness, and weighs 3.6 grams.Cf. Hattatt 2007, Fig. 178 for similar examples, listed as Aucissa derivative brooches. Regular strip bow types do not have the severe arch of the Aucissa types, rather they have a more subtle profile as in the case of this example.
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