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Description: | A copper alloy Roman Initial T-shaped brooch: The cylindrical crossbar has a central slot on the reverse to allow the pin to be hinged on an axis bar within the crossbar. The axis bar and pin are missing. The cross bar terminals and reverse are slightly abraded and incomplete. The crossbar is undecorated. The bow head is slightly hump-like, and curved in profile. The bow head and bow are undecorated, and the bow tapers towards a blunt, probably broken point. The bow is oval in section. The surface of the brooch has a dark green patina and has possibly been coated in an unknown substance recently. It measures 19.19mm long, 24.1mm wide and it weighs 2.5g.The brooch is an Initial T-shaped brooch: these brooches have no headloop and are hinged. These type of brooches are less decorated than later examples. 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 an initial T-shape brooch which date to the Flavian period, AD 69 to 96 (ibid 159). Similar brooches are illustrated in Bayley and Butcher, for example T121b.
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