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Description: | A 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 a transverse groove. Protruding from the upper edge of the central portion of the wings there is an integral protrusion which is the remains of the head loop. The bow head is flat and forms an inverted 'L' in profile. The upper face is undecorated. The bow is rectangular in plan and section and terminates with a broken edge at the approximate mid point. The bow is decorated with a column of lozenge shaped cells and triangular cells in the field. At the break there is two lentoids forming a '/\ shape. The reverse of the bow has a slight lip on the lateral edges. The surface of the brooch has a brown coloured patina. It measures 22.98mm long, 19.98mm wide and it weighs 5.2g.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 date to the mid 1st to mid 2nd century (ibid p. 167. Similar brooches are illustrated in Bayley and Butcher, for example T110a and T105/6.
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