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Description: | Copper alloy and ironBrooch. Hinged Colchester Derivative brooch. Plain tubular wings are clenched behind to retain an iron - shown by corrosion products - axis bar for a hinged pin (lost), with a flat-backed bow with prominent central ridge starting clear of the head and with a ridge or step on either side of the bow, the lower part of the side ridges is notched to give a serrated edge to the lower bow. The bow tapers to a plain foot with an unpierced folded catch plate behind it. The combination of traits does not appear in Mackreth's corpus (2011). Suggested date: Early Roman, 75-150.Length: 33.6mm, Width: 21.9mm, Thickness (crest of bow clear of central ridge): 3mm, Weight: 5.44gms.
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