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Description: | Incomplete tiny copper alloy Roman brooch of the Polden Hill type, missing its lower bow, catchplate and pin. The wings are decorated with heavily moulded vertical ribs, one at either end flanking the intact circular lugs holding the axis bar in place, and another one each side mid way between the bow and the wing ends, decorated with an off-centre incised line, nearest to the inner (bow) edge. The wingspan is 22mm and the spring mechanism in the concave wing-space almost complete - 9 coils survive, as does the axis bar and thread that passes throught the forward facing hook. The bow extends from the top of the wings, the forward facing hook extending to become a central rib with two notches at the top of the bow, and ending as the bow drops downwards. This is flanked either side of the bow by a moulding following the line of the bow, also to where it drops downwards. The bow then becomes pointed oval in section (longitudinally) before it breaks (old). Incomplete length 21mm. 1st century AD. Cf Hattatt no.895. | Subjects: | Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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