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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy brooch of Roman date, probably an Aucissa or Hod Hill derivative brooch. It is missing most of the head, pin, foot and catchplate due to old breaks. The head is flat, rectangular in form and with incomplete terminals that would have originally held in place a separately cast bar. These are separated by a rectangular pin slot. The head is separated from the bow by a narrow collar or waist. Beneath the collar extends the bow, which is flat and triangular in form towards the head end, tapering sharply to a narrow and straight rectangular bow. The foot is missing due to old breaks. On the front face of the bow is the remains of moulded decoration comprising a central vertical groove that runs the length of the bow, with grooved borders at the head end. The sides of bow, particularly where it is narrowest, appear to be flattened producing a slight lip on both front and back faces, possibly indicative that the bow has been deliberately modified and narrowed at a later date. At both head end and foot end the brooch has suffered from post-depositional damage resulting in it being folded into an almost U-shaped profile. It measures 30.32mm in length (folded), 9.02mm in width at head, 3.23mm in width at bow, 2.06mm in thickness at bow and 1.52g in weight.This is an incomplete brooch of Roman date. Its form is suggestive of Aucissa and Hod Hill type brooches (e.g. Blagg et al., 2004: nos. 8, 10-11, 28-29; Hattatt, 1989: nos. 67, 839, 861, 1496), although no close parallel for the bow form has been identified, perhaps as a result of its possible modification. It is of 1st century AD date, c.43-100 AD.
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