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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with no wing caps. The wings are decorated with a pair of transverse linear grooves at the terminal. There is a hook at the bow head/upper edge of wings. The axis bar, pin and spring or hinge are all missing. The bow head is hump-like in profile and is quite deep in profile, but slender from the front view. The bow head and bow is undecorated. The bow is sub semi-circular in section and tapers to a blunt point at the foot. The catchplate on the reverse is solid and complete. The surface of the brooch is abraded and corroded with traces of a mid green patina. The brooch is otherwise in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 14.19mm across the wings and 27.87mm long. It weighs 2.9g.The brooch is probably what Hattat (Hattat, R 1985 Iron Age and Roman Brooches Oxbow) describes as a T-shaped type and what Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 159), describe as a Colchester derivative, which they date to the Flavian period, 69-96 AD and into the second century.
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