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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 is incomplete and only a fragment of the pin remains. 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 decorated with a 'Y' shaped groove which travels down the bow, which tapers towards a broken point. The bow is sub-rectangular in section. The surface of the brooch has an abraded mid green patina has traces of a white metal alloy coating. It measures 23.91mm long, 13.13mm wide and it weighs 3g.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).
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