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Description: | Head and upper part of the bow of a Roman cast copper alloy knee brooch. The head is a flat rectangular plate. On the back of the head is an open backed spring box formed of sides and lower edge with an open top edge and back. The sides are oval and pierced to hold a copper alloy spindle between them. The copper alloy pin has a sprung head of four loops wrapped around this spindle and has broken on the fourth loop with an old break. There are also old breaks to each end suggesting there was an internal chord running below the spring. The front of the head plate is decorated with a recessed panel, the panel has a straight upper edge and sides and a lower edge shaped into three points. No trace of enamel survives. In the centre of the top edge of the head plate is the worn remains of a head loop.The bow rises from the lower edge of the head plate, projecting slightly to the back to create the lower edge to the spring box. The bow a shallow 180 degree curve before starting to run straight to the foot. The bow is D-shaped in section with a flat back and convex front and narrows consistantly in width from the head to the break at the foot end. The front is very worn, obscuring any decoration. The bow ends in a very worn break at the foot.The brooch fragment is now 23.6mm long, 11.3mm wide and 9.4mm thick; it weighs 2.36g.Hattat (1985:122 and fig. 52) illustrates a similar example, no.481 with slightly different enamel design on the head plate, from East Anglia and references an example from Colchester (Hull pl.612, 0619). Mackreth (2011;189 and plate 30) illustrates another similar example, no. 7489, again with a different design on the head plate, and suggests a later 2nd to early 3rd century date. Both these examples and IOW-C9CD63 on this database, which has a similar design on the head plate to this example, have further triangular indents or panels for enamel on the bow but this example is too worn to distinguish if any were present or not.
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