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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 iron axis bar within the crossbar. The pin is incomplete. The outer face of the wings is decorated with flared terminals. Protruding from the upper edge of the central portion of the crossbar there is an integral protrusion which is the remains of the head loop. The base of the headloop is decorated with a horizontal ridge. The bow head is hump-like and is a deep sub semi-circle in section. The bow head is decorated with a high-relief semi-circular protrusion at the junction of the bow head and crossbar. The upper face of the head is decorated with a vertical rectangular platform which tapers in depth and width down the bow. Either side of the bow head is decorated with sub-lentoid protrusions. The decoration continues along the bow but the detail is not clear due to abrasion. The bow tapers to a broken point, but this break is not recent. The reverse of the bow has a vertical ridge which would have led to the catchplate, but the bow is broken before the catchplate starts. The surface of the brooch has a brown coloured patina. It measures 44.41mm long, 29.08mm wide and it weighs 19.1g.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). This example is a possibly a large South-Western type T-shape brooch which date to the mid 1st to mid 2nd century (ibid p. 167).
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