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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch of headstud type. The top of the headloop, edge of the wings, pin, lower bow, foot and catchplate are all missing due to old breaks. The brooch has incomplete rectangular wings with the remains of vertical moulded ridges or steps on their front faces. Each wing has a semi-cylindrical casing that holds in place a separately cast copper-alloy(?) axis bar with a rectangular slot at the centre of the brooch through which the now missing pin would have hinged. At the top of the brooch is an integral but incomplete chain loop, most of which is missing due to old breaks. The bow is rectangular in form with a headstud below the chain loop. This is circular in form with a central circular pellet. On the front face of the bow beneath the headstud there is moulded decoration comprising a central vertical band of lozenges with raised vertical bands to each side of the bow, the recessed field between perhaps originally containing additional decoration (enamel?) although this is now uncertain due to the preservation of the object. It measures 21.80mm in length, 11.55mm in width at wings, 6.56mm in width at bow, 5.22mm in thickness at headstud, and weighs 3.93g.Similar Roman headstud brooches are noted from Suffolk, in particular one example from Roman Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: no. 152) and examples recorded through the PAS (SF-E0E197, SF-A8E853, SF-A28634, SF-6A5287 and SF-C64AB7). These indicate a date in the late-1st to 2nd centuries AD for the current example.
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