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Description: | Head and upper part of the bow of a Roman copper alloy T-shaped varient brooch of local type with a expanded fan shaped head plate. The head is a fan (D shaped) plate with a flat back and front. Along the straight lower edge is a cylinder with a central slot, this cylinder helds the bar on which the pin hinged, pivoting in the slot. It measures 28.6mm across the bar. There is slight damage to one end of the cylinder but it is otherwise complete and contains iron corrosion, probably the remains of the bar. Around the upper edge the front of the plate is decorated with multiple very thin incised diagonal lines. The plate is expanded at the centre of the top edge into an integral loop, now broken.The bow extends from the lower part of the centre of the head, above the slot and cylindrical cover. The bow is broad and flat, slightly pointed oval in section. It tapers gradually in width down to the old break and is undecorated.It is now 44.6mm long, 28.6mm wide and 2.63mm thick; it weighs 11.02 grams.This is a local variant, type T140, which develops the T-shaped brooches with cylindrical hinged heads, possibly as a local response to Trumpet headed brooches (Bayley and Butcher 2004:167-8). Similar examples with varying decoration on the bow were recorded from 1st to 2nd century contexts at Nettleton, Wiltshire (Wedlake 1982:125-7, no.48 and 49). Wedlake (ibid) quotes examples from Radstock and Camerton while Bayley and Butcher (ibid) suggest it is a south western type dating to the 2nd century. SOM-A62FC7 and SOM-3E88C5 on this database from Somerset are very similar.
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