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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman brooch, possibly a headstud brooch: The wings are a horizontal semi-cylinder with perforated wing caps, which supports a copper alloy axis bar. Around this bar the copper alloy spring is coiled five times. The pin is only fragmentary. The upper edge of the wings there is an integral, incomplete head loop. The outer face of the wings is mainly covered with a triangular bow head which narrows to the bow. The side of the bow head is quite angular and decorated with transverse grooves/ridges. The upper portion of the bow, which is narrowed below the bow head is decorated with a small high-relief lozenge on either outer faces of the bow. The bow is triangular in section. The bow is broken towards the bow head, and this break is possibly recent. The brooch has a well developed mid grey/green patina. It measures 29.96mm long, 17.1mm wide across the wings and weighs 8.5g.This would be an unusual headstud brooch, lacking the headstud, but the style of the bow head, headloop and wings are very similar. 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. 165) comments that the headstud brooches are found throughout Britain and being manufactured in a number of workshops. There is an almost identical brooch recently recorded from Abberton, Worcestershire (WAW-D62E61). Mackreth (Mackreth, D. 1998 'Copper Alloy Brooches' in Timby, J. Excavations at Kingscote and Wycomb, Gloucestershire Cotswold Archaeological Trust) also illustrates a very similar example, No. 12:76. In her "Roman Brooch Timeline" (2007), Worrell dates headstud brooches to AD75-AD200.
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