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Description: | *Brooch at 9 o'clock in image* Incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of the Polden Hill type, missing its foot, catchplate, spring mechanism and pin. The wings are decorated with heavily moulded vertical ribs, one at either end flanking the now worn and semi-circular lugs and decorated with an incised line, and another each side mid way between the bow and the wing ends, decorated with two incised lines. An incised line also flanks the bow as it extends from the top of the wings. The wingspan is 30mm and the area for the spring mechanism is slightly concave. There is an indentation at the mid-point of the straight edge of the semi-circular lug, presumably where the axis bar ?lay. Probably, the lugs were originally circular but both straight edges seem original. The bow is 10mm wide as it curves outwards from the head, with three central raised ribs in decoration, the outer two expanding and slanting inwards to a point just below where the central rib also narrows to a point. Either edge of the bow is flanked by an incised line and a vertical moulding for c.10mm. Below this are two horizontal incised lines, and the bow is much narrower at 5mm wide. The bow is broken just as the catchplate beins on the reverse. At the top-centre of the wings is an patch of iron corrosion just below a ?scar of a rear- or forward-facing hook, that could also be just wear. However, evidence of iron so high up suggests a hook held the iron thread. Incomplete length 36mm. 1st century. It is unclear how this brooch would have worked, given the peculiar nature of the apparantly non-pierced lugs and absence of any other integral pierced lugs. Reworking after damage could be a possibility. Cf Hattatt no.382 for an example with a very similar moulded design on the bow. | Subjects: | Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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