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Description: | An incomplete Copper Alloy Roman T Shaped brooch dating to the period AD 50-150.The brooch measures 64.34mm in length, 31.69mm maximum width, 5.45mm minimum width and weighs 11.44g.The head has cylindrical wings which house the copper alloy axis bar for the hinged pin mechanism. Both wings are complete and each exhibits two pairs of concentric grooves.The wings are divided by a central pin slot, the pin is present and tapers to an old break. The bow arches back from the head and displays ridges incised with diagonal grooves along each edge and a rectangular reserve in the centre of the bow incised with an X shaped groove.Below this are three lozengiform reserves with recesses,the middle one is degraded displaying an uncertain colour, the top and bottom recesses are filled with blue enamel. Below this the bow tapers to the knobbed foot and is decorated with a longitudinal ridge incised with a series of diagonal grooves. The catchplate projects from the reverse of the foot and measures 17.94mm in length and terminates in an old break. The catchplate is incomplete.Cf. Hattatt, R, 2007, p. 303, no 386.
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