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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Maxey type Bow-and-fantail brooch. Only the foot and the catchplate survive, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.The foot is flat and triangular in form, expanding to a flattened base. The front face is decorated with an incised grooved border within which is an inner border of punched dots that form a triangular shape. On the back face is an integrally cast catchplate. This is sub-triangular in form with a rectangular pin groove.This buckle measures 13.01mm in length, 3.83mm in width at the top of the foot, 8.84mm in width at the base of the foot, 2.00mm in thickness, 7.44mm in thickness including the catchplate, 1.27g in weight.This is the foot from a Roman Bow-and-fantail brooch of Maxey type similar to examples published by Hattatt (1987: nos. 876-881). This group of brooches has a probable origin in the Eastern Counties and Crummy suggests they are likely to be a prototype for later (2nd century AD) bow-and-fantail brooches with enamelled foot, the group possibly dating to the second half of the 1st century AD, c.50-80 AD (Crummy, 1985: 164-166, fig. 111 no. 2).
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