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Description: | An incomplete, possibly reused, copper-alloy 'Lowbury' style brooch dating to the first century AD. Mackreth's (2011) Class 2b (based on the borders, see below) with no. 4054 being the closest parallel.The brooch consists of the bow and the coiled spring, but the pin is missing as is the very base of the catchplate. Down the outer edges of the bow are multiple short horizontal grooves bordered by an incised vertical line (hence Class 2b rather than 2c), with the centre of the bow being plain and undecorated. Interestingly there is an additional copper alloy wire looped through the spring head and then wrapped around itself to secure it in place. This appears to be an attempt at replacing the pin however the wire is loose and the tension required to hold the brooch in place may not have been sufficent.Similar brooches illustrated in Mackreth were found in Roman levels dating from c. AD 43-75; Lowbury brooches appear to have gone out of use by AD 80. Although they may date to the Roman period chronologically, they are a distinctively Iron Age brooch and are associated with the Atrebates, with their distribution largely contained to Hampshire, Berkshire and South Oxfordshire and the immediate vicinity.
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