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Description: | A copper alloy fragment of a Roman Brooch of Hod Hill type, dating to the 1st Century AD. The object consists of most of the head, the side lugs and a small fragment of the top of the bow. The sub-triangular head terminates in a broken cylinder which would have been formed by rolling the metal back on itself (width 13.8mm). There are traces of iron staining here, suggestive of an iron axis bar. In this there is a slit for the pin, although both the pin and spring mechanism are missing. The plain head then narrows to a width of c.9mm to form the bow, the top of which is flanked two side lugs which span 16.7mm. The bow fragment only extends c.2mm down after the side lugs. The bow, including the lugs, is decorated with a series of longitudinal grooves, while the narrowed section above the side lugs has two transverse moulded ribs. The upper surface bears traces of iron staining, while the reverse of the object is flat and undecorated.The fragment is 21.7mm long, 1.8mm thick and weighs 1.51g.A number of similar Hod Hill type brooches with side lugs are illustrated in Hattatt (2000), p.322, fig. 181, which he dates to the 1st Century AD.
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