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Description: | An incomplete Roman cast copper-alloy Hod Hill, Class B brooch (AD 43-75).The forward curling housing for the axis bar is missing. The pin, axis bar and part of the catch-plate are also missing.It is moulded at the front and flat at the rear.The head, a sub-rectangular plate, has two horizontal grooves with a ridge dividing them. The lower edge of the lower groove has a horizontal line of tiny punched dots. These contain traces of tinning. At each end of the lug there is a side knob/lug. The sides of the bow taper evenly in width towards the foot. Just below the head the bow has a width of 7.3mm and at the foot the width is 3.5mm. The front of the bow has four horizontal grooves divided by prominent ridges. Each ridge is 'nicked' but the nicks are barely visible. The curled-over part of the catch-plate that secured the pin-tip is missing due to a break.Height: 29.9mm; width: 20.4mm; thickness at catch-plate: 6.3mm. Weight: 4.14g.The brooch has a matt green patina with traces of tinning. The breaks are abraded.Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type.Compare with similar brooch from Kings Somborne, Hampshire: HAMP-43BCE2.Hattatt. R,1982. Ancient and Romano-British Brooches. Dorset Publishing. Dorset.
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