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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Colchester two-piece brooch. Most of its pin and just over half its spring is missing. The wings are semi-circular with an integral double-pierced lug. The spring is secured by passing the external chord and the axis bar through the lug. Part of the axis bar survives within the three coils of spring that survive, and it passes through the lower piercing in the lug before it breaks. The pin is broken after 10mm at one end, and at the other end is broken possibly before another coil, which then would have bent upwards to thread through the upper piercing. The thread remains through the upper piercing, though it is broken at both ends. The front of the wings are decorated with a pair of incised lines flanking each end. The bow extends from the top of the lug and for half the length of the bow it has a central moulding, flanked on either side by an incised line. As this tapers out, the catchplate extends to the reverse, and an incised line separates the bow from catchplate on either side. The curl of the catchplate is slightly damaged, and it is decorated with pairs of incised lines in alternating diagonal directions, so if held horizontally, it would look like an M or W. The foot of the bow is defined by two tiny horizontal incised lines. Length 54mm, wingspan 22mm. 1st century AD. | Subjects: | Colchester two-piece | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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