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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman brooch of the headstud type, dating from AD 75 - 200. The bow is decorated with a single broad and deep longitudinal groove. The stud is teardrop shaped, the point of the teardrop pointing towards the foot of the brooch. The upper part of the teardrop is decorated with an annular groove which contains faint traces of enamel, though the colour is not now discernible. There is a circular foot, decorated with two narrow, concentric grooves on the edge. At the head are two short wings, tubular on the reverse, separated by the notch for the hinged pin. Each wing is decorated with three narrow, vertical grooves, one band of metal left raised on each side is decorated with transverse grooves. There is an integral head loop. The catch plate, the copper alloy axis bar and the pin remain in place except for the point of the pin which has broken away and is missing. The brooch is 51.1mm long, 13.1mm wide and 18.1mm thick. It weighs 7.65gm.Ssimilar brooches are illustrated in Hattat, 2000, Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, figure 192, numbers 35 and 427. Compare also Mackreth, 2011, Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, volume 2, plate 74, number 7427.
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