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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman knee brooch. It is missing the pin due to old breaks, and the bow has been partially bent as a result of post-depositional damage. The head has a flat, transverse rectangular plate that is undecorated on its front face. At the centre of the back face the headplate has a lathe integral lug that is oval in form with a central circular aperture and a small forwards facing hook at the top. These hold in place a copper-alloy axis bar and spring of six coils, missing the pin due to old breaks. Extending from the base of the head is the bow. This is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face. It expands towards its centre, where there is a sharp, angular shoulder or carination, beneath which the bow tapers towards the foot. The fot itself has been bent forwards due to post-depositional damage, is flat, and has double transverse ribs separated by a transverse groove on the front face. On the back face of the foot is an integral catchplate. This is vertical and an elongated rectangle in form with curved outer edge creating a u-shaped pin rest. The outer edge has a single transverse rib at its upper edge. The entire object measures 32.35mm in height (bent), 18.68mm in width at spring, 8.85mm in width at bow, 5.17mm in thickness at bow, and 8.84g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman knee brooch. It finds parallels in examples from Augst (Riha, 1979: nos. 291-298) and those published by Hattatt (1989: no. 1234) and Mackreth (2011: KNEE Cont 6, especially nos. 7634, 7679) (see also SF-4A00B9 for a near identical example). These suggest a probable continental origin for the current example and a date range in the c.2nd century AD.
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