File:'Langton Down' type Roman brooch (FindID 68936).jpg

English: Incomplete copper alloy Langton Down type B, Romano British brooch. The head of the brooch has a cylindrical spring cover that it is 17mm wide, with the edges of the curled metal barely meeting (ie the cylinder has a slit) and a sub square pin slot (divided by the same slit). The edges are worn, but the cover appears complete. Within the cover are the remains of a separate, eight coil spring, and protruding from the slot is the tapering shank of the pin, now broken, with a surviving length of 10.24mm. The bow of the brooch is sharply angled from the head at a right angle. It is wide, straight and reeded and tapers slightly to a wide, blunted point. It is decorated with a central pair of vertical, incised lines, between which is a worn pattern that may be a wavy line or zig zag. Flanking these lines are at least one more incised line. There is a central incised line on the spring cover, but otherwise that is plain. The reverse of the brooch is plain and the catch plate is almost entirely missing. What remains is a slight fragment of the curl that held the pin and a raised seam where the catchplate once was. The brooch is worn, but it has an even mid green patina with patches of orangey brown to the front, and a significant patch of orangey brown around the area of the catchplate. All breaks on the brooch are worn smooth and similarly patinated, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch is 42.98mm long, 17mm wide across the spring cover, 9.02mm wide across the bow, 1.38mm thick and weighs 5.67g. A close, but more complete parallel can be seen in May, 1996, figure 11.5, number 54. Brooches of this type date from about 43 to 60 AD.