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Description: | Incomplete Roman cast copper alloy headstud brooch with hinged pin and moulded decoration on the bow. The pin, headloop, lower part of the bow and foot are missing.There is the base of an integrally cast circular headloop at the top, mostly missing to old breaks. The head has rectangular wings, 17.0mm across and 6.5mm wide. The wings thin from the bow to the edges in four regular transverse steps. On the back of the wings is an integral tube to hold the hinge bar with a central slot for the pin to pivot on the bar. There are the remains of part of a copper alloy (or possibly iron) axis bar in situ although the pin is missing.The bow rises at 90 degrees from the head then has a 60 degrees bend before curving towards the foot, the lower two thirds are missing to an old, worn break. The bend has a distinct angle on the back of the bow but the front is a more continuous curve. It is rectangular in section before the bend with a concave back and D-shaped in section with a flat back below the bend. There is a raised integral headstud in the form of a ring surrounding a large central raised circle, on the bow at the bend just below the head. From the headstud to the break there is an indented panel running down the bow flanked by narrow indented lines and containing a central continuous row of small raised lozenges with indented centres containging yesslow enamel. Any enamel in the rest of the recessed panel is now unclear.The fragment is now 19.6mm long, 13.6mm thick and weighs 6.02 grams.Bailey and Butcher (2004:165-6) suggest the hinged headstud brooches are found throughout Britain although in common with other headstud brooches they are much less common in the South than in the Midlands and North. They also suggest (ibid) they were in use before 100AD and continued in use well into the 2nd century (c.75-175 AD). Where analysed (ibid) examples of this form are usually made of bronze or leaded bronze rather than brass. SOM-1863A1 from Bradford Abbas in Dorset is similar but complete.
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