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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman T-shaped brooch, dating to c. 1st-2nd century AD. The brooch consists of a cylindrical crossbar, mostly intact, which arches at a nearly 90-degree angle at the neck and tapers into a sharply incurving brooch body, creating a C-shaped profile and terminating into an undecorated foot. Remains of the sub-triangular unperforated catchplate are visible on the reverse of the lower portion of the brooch body. Although the outer surface of the brooch is extremely worn, it is possible to discern traces of incised decoration, including two incised lines that run vertically down the centre of the brooch. Iron corrosion has adhered to the centre of the cylindrical crossbar and at its ends, suggesting that the iron axial pin is still intact; the iron pin is missing. The brooch is medium-green in colour with some areas of darker green patina on the underside. It measures 47.2 mm long, 32.8 mm wide at crossbar and weighs 16.8 grams. Cf. Hattatt 2007, fig. 161, no. 907.
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