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Description: | The head and upper part of the bow of a Roman copper-alloy developed T-shaped brooch of the 'Dorset type', with hinged pin dating to AD 50-150. The brooch head has open-ended cylindrical wings, with a broken integral head loop. What remains of the head loop would suggest that this was circular. Both the wings are probably complete and nearly closed, however the ends of the right hand wing are heavily abraded. The wings are undecorated. There is a large transverse slot through the centre of the underside of the head, between the wings, where the pin would have sat. The slot contains a copper-alloy axis bar but not the pin head. The bow is almost flat in cross-section with a flat reverse and very shallowly convex front. It rises at about 90 degrees to the head, before running flat to a worn break. The bow tapers slightly in width from the head to an old abraded break . The remaining part is decorated with two main longitudinal channels, between three ridges: two at the sides and one central. It is possible these once held enamel .The brooch fragment is 21.8mm long, 23.3mm thick and weighs 4.07 grams.This brooch is comparable to a 'Dorset type' example illustrated in (Hattatt 2000, 304; no 401). Bayley and Butcher (2004, 167) suggest this type is mainly south western in distribution and dates to the later 1st - early 2nd century AD (c.75-150). They illustrate several types with similar angular bows and tabs at the head (ibid., 166).
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