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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Langton Down brooch. It is missing the pin, foot and catchplate due to old breaks. The spring casing is cylindrical in form, folded to encase the spring and with a central rectangular slot through which the now missing pin would have originally hinged. It is decorated on its upper and front faces with a single incised transverse groove and double vertical grooves at each end. Where the bow and spring casing join there are double transverse grooves. The bow itself is flat, rectangular in form, turns sharply at right angles to the spring casing, and terminates in old breaks towards the foot. It has decoration on the front face comprising a central vertical rib with double vertical grooves, either side of which are shallow fluts and raised ribs at the outer edge. On the back face at the base of he surviving fragment are traces of the integral catchplate, but its precise form is uncertain due to the preservation of the object. It measures 30.62mm in length, 20.74mm in width (at spring casing, 9.62mm at bow), 2.17mm in thickness at bow, and 8.82g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman Langton Down brooch. It finds parallels in examples from Hacheston (e.g. Blagg et al., 2004: no. 51) and is of 1st century AD date, c.25-65 AD.
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