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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper-alloy enamelled headstud brooch of late 1st to 2nd century date, AD. 75-200. The brooch is extensively worn with only the head, wings and upper arch of the bow surviving. The head is T-shaped with short lateral wings with each one decorated with a column of three blue enamel lozenges. The wings are sub-cylindrical in section so that the axis bar is enclosed with a slot opening at the centre for the hinged pin to rotate. The head of the hinged pin is still in situ. The head of the brooch has a raised linear crest which on sprung examples would have been pierced to take the pin chord but in this case is purely decorative. Below this crest there is a circular recess with a central small circular rivet hole which pierces through to the underside of the bow. This recess would have carried the now missing headstud component with the small rivet hole being used to secure it in place. Beneath the headstud recess the bow is twisted and broken with slight traces of blue lozenge-shaped enamel decoration which would have continued down the bow. The bow appears to be broadly semi-circular in section. A more complete example of this style of brooch can be seen already recorded on the database at: YORYM-7D5746.Similar brooches are also illustrated in 'A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches', p332, fig 191, numbers 424 & 425.
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