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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch. The cylindrical crossbar has a central slot on the reverse to allow the pin to be hinged on the copper alloy axis bar within the wings. The pin is missing and the axis bar and one wing is incomplete. The break of the incomplete wing is not too recent. The outer face of the wings is decorated with obliquely angled grooves. Protruding from the upper edge of the central portion of the wings is an sub-trapezoidal plate with a broken upper edge which is the remains of the head loop. The outer face is decorated with transverse grooves, one of which has fine obliquely angled ribbing. The bow head is flat and is a long rectangular in section. In profile the bow head is angled at c. 45 °, then the bow drops down. In plan the rectangular-sectioned bow is an elongated rectangle in shape and has a raised vertical rectangular platform which is decorated with four vertical grooves. The bow tapers towards a broken edge near the foot. The lower portion of the bow is decorated with horizontal grooves and is this portion is slightly off-set. The reverse has traces of a catchplate. The bow in its entirety is slightly twisted and bent. The surface of the brooch has a lightly pitted grey/green patina. It measures 57.56mm long, 30.92mm wide and it weighs 10.9g.The brooch is a T-shaped brooch, these brooches can be highly decorated with cells and enamel, others are less decorated. T-shaped brooches appear to be manufactured in the West Country (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 159). The brooch is a later developed T-shape brooch which is called the 'Large south-western T-Shaped brooch' due to its size, the remains of a large head loop, and nature of the decoration Brooches of this type are found in contexts dating to the second century (ibid p.167 and Figure 140).
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