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Description: | Copper alloy and iron Brooch. Hinged Colchester Derivative, Mackreth type CD H 13.c. Tubular wings clenched behind with bead and reel and billeted decoration to the front only, retaining a probably iron axis bar, and clasped by a D section tapered bow with five or six longitudinal ribs, alternately billeted, meeting horizontal mouldings in front of the top of the catch plate; horizontal mouldings continue from here to a rounded foot or terminal. This is one of a number of South Western types of brooch considered to have reached northern Britain through coastal trade. Suggested date: Early Roman, 75-150.Length: 39.1mm, Width: 28.2mm, Thickness (crest of bow): 4.7mm, Weight: 6.01gms.
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