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Description: | An incomplete and possibly flattened copper alloy Roman brooch of Aucissa derivative or Hod Hill type, broken into two pieces and dating to the 1st Century AD. One fragment is roughly rectangular in shape (measures 31.4mm x 14.2mm), consisting of most of the length of the bow and an expansion for the head with a notch in the middle for a pin. The head is incomplete and the pin and spring mechanism are missing. The second fragment consists of the lower part of the bow which narrows abruptly down to the point of the foot (measures 16.3mm x 11.1mm). To the reverse of this is the small triangular catchplate which extends 3.85mm outwards.The main body of the brooch is sub-rectangular, with long sides gradually expanding towards the foot. It is decorated on the upper surface with longitudinal grooves and raise lines which bear significant traces of silvering, while the reverse is undecorated. The fragments are now mostly flat although the object appears to have been bent at the break. The fragments are worn with some damage to the long sides.Together the fragments are c.45mm long and 0.9mm thick. They weigh 1.73g (separately 1.18g and 0.55).Similar Aucissa variant and derivative brooches are illustrated in Hattatt (2000) p.318-9, figs. 177-8, which the author dates to the 1st Century AD. This brooch does bear particular resemblance to nos. 839 and 840, and also 341B from Wiltshire which has a completely straight bow.
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