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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy equal-ended hinged bow brooch of Roman date. The main plate is lozenge-shaped with a moulded front and flat reverse. The front has a recessed lozenge panel with a raised annulet around a hole at the centre. The panel is likely to have been filled with enamel, though no traces of this now remain, and a separate stud or glass gem may have fitted in to the central hole. A cross shaped projection extends from one point of the main plate to the reverse of which the remains of a catchplate can be seen. From the opposite point, a worn and broken projection extends which is likely to have mirrored the other. The pin no longer remains.The metal has a dark-green patina and is worn. The brooch is 36.6mm long, 20.8mm wide, 1.9mm thick and weighs 2.9g.A similar example has been recorded on the PAS database as IOW-45663C and are also illustrated in Hattatt, p.348, fig.307, no.1581 and Crummy p.15, fig.12, type 182.
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