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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy developed T-shaped brooch dating to the late first to early second century AD. The pin and lower part of the bow and foot are missing and there are areas of damage.The head has two hollow cylindrical wings, now 22.5mm wide, to hold the axis bar for the hinged pin. The wings are plain, narrowing slightly towards the outer ends. One wing is complete, the other ends in an old break. In the broken wing is part of the copper alloy axis bar which would have run though the wings. Between the wings on the under side of the head is a slot in which the pin, now missing, would have hinged on the axis bar. At the top of the head is an integral flat tab with a worn, broken upper edge which may have been pierced for a loop. The bow has a C-shaped cross section with a concave back and convex front. It projects up at 60 degrees degrees from the head then has a distinct carination where it bends though 45 degrees before continuing in a shallow curve to the old break part way down the bow. The bow tapers in width slightly but consistantly from the top to the break. Before the first bend it is plain. After the bend a central raised ridge line is emphasised by indented lines to either side. The ridge line is knurled with multiple closely spaced incised transverse lines. These lines continue to the break.The brooch fragment is now 29.0mm long, 15.6mm thick; it weighs 5.16 grams.The tab suggests it is of the developed rather than intial T-shaped type. Developed T-shaped brooches are very variable in the decoration on their bows with both moulded, as here, decoration and enamelling. Bayley and Butcher (2004,167) suggest this type is mainly South Western in distribution and dates to the later first - early 2nd century AD (c. AD 75-150). Examples with ridges down the bow and these distinct changes of angle are common but variable, SOM-8D658B on this database is similar but with three grooves rather than two and a shorter upper section.
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