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Description: | The brooch is made of copper alloy. One wing and the lower portion of the bow is missing. The width of the brooch across the wings is 20mm and the length from the wings to the tip of the bow is 37.5mm.
The remaining wing of the brooch is semi-cylindrical terminating with a wing cap. At the centre of of the wing cap is a hole. This hole supports the fragment of iron, sub-circular sectioned axis bar. The pin and spring is missing. The upper and lower edges of the wings are abraded.
The bow head is humped in profile. It is decorated with a central ridge which has two seconday ridges forming a border. This central ridge tapers in width and depth, but is unclear on the bow as the original surface is missing. The bow is sub-oval in section and tapers gradually to a broken edge. This break is not recent. On the reverse of the bow is an abraded ridge which expands in depth towards the lower portion of the bow and presumably would continue to form the catchplate, which is now missing.
The surface of the brooch, has traces of a mid brown/green coloured patina.
The style of the wings and hump-back shape suggest the brooch is a Polden Hill type. The Polden Hill types tend to be dated to the 1st century according to Hattat. | Subjects: | Colchester Two-Piece Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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