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Description: | Incomplete Roman tinned copper alloy plate brooch, a small example of an abnormal form for which no parallel has been identified. A convex-ended, almost moustache-shaped plate is joined by a pair of integral leaf-shaped lobes to a median bar, the two spaces between these parts being openwork apertures. At the start of the bar a rectangular boss lies between two transverse ribs decorated with fine oblique grooves. On the reverse the stumps of two transverse ribs and a concavity between them are probably the remains of a spring housing, though this type of spring mechanism is not found on plate brooches. The catchplate, surviving only as a stump, begins just before the break. The tinned front face is decorated with lines of punched dots in a style reminiscent of hinged plate brooches such as Hattatt 2000 fig. 202, nos. 1010 and 1561A. Extant length and width 18 and 19.5mm. Perhaps second half 1st century.
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