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Description: | An incomplete Roman tinned copper alloy Hod Hill brooch with middle side lugs dating to the period c. AD 43 - 70. It comprises the head, the bow and the side lugs. The brooch measures 26.48mm in length, 25.38mm maximum width and weighs 2.55g.The head measures 11.23mmm at its widest point and is heavily damaged, the pin bar is missing, however, traces of iron corrosion are visible. Below the head, the brooch tapers to a width of 6.74mm at which point three transverse ridges divided by two transverse grooves run across the width of the bow. The brooch then widens to a width of 25.37mm including the knops projcting from either side. The bow then tapers from the knops to a width of 7.94mm and terminates in an old break.The bow is decorated with a longitudinal row of incised dots flanked on either side by longitudinal riges etched with a series of transverse lines. Both ridges are then flanked on their outer edge by a longitudianl groove.The brooch bears similarities to no. 319 in Hattatt, pp. 322, fig. 181.
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