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Description: | A fragment of copper alloy Roman T shaped brooch dating to AD 50 - 150. The fragment consists of most of the head and part of the bow. There is no pin but iron corrosion can be seen both within the wings and at the top of the head where the pin would have joined the pin bar. The bow, D shaped in cross section, narrows rapidly after leaving the head and steps in 19mm from the top of the head, at which point it takes on a circular shaped cross section before ending at an old break. The wider section of the top of the bow is decorated with a pronounced longitudinal ridge which is echoed by the narrower round section of the bow below. Either side of this ridge are narrower ridges at the outer edges of the bow which finish where the upper part steps in.There is no other decoration. One wing appears to be truncated, pehaps an old break or poor casting.The fragment is 26.65mm in length, 30mm wide across the wings. It weighs 6.90grams. IT as a grey/green patina.Cf Richard Hattatt, 2007, A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches, Oxbow Books p 302 fig 161 no 907 and others.
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