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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch of Polden Hill type. The brooch is made from cast copper alloy and is incomplete.
In plan, the brooch has short cylindrical wings with caps on each end. The caps are complete and perforated by a single hole. The semi-enclosed wings and wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar. The ends of the wings are decorated by two adjacent longitudinal grooves, the rest of the wings are undecorated.
The bow head has little to no hump so that in cross-section the bow forms an inverted and slightly rounded ??L??-shape. In the centre of the bow head, at the junction of the wings are the remains of a copper projection. This is the remains of a backward facing hook or lug. Either side of the bow head are small raised appendages. The bow of the brooch is sub-circular in cross-section and abraded. It is therefore impossible to tell if it was once decorated or not. The bow is broken above the now missing catchplate (not recent breaks). Looking at the reverse of the brooch, the spring is made of copper and the pin is missing. The back of the brooch is flat and undecorated.
The brooch is heavily corroded and in a poor condition. Its surface is light green in colour. The width of the brooch across the wings is 15.0mm; the length from the wings to the end of the broken bow is 22.1mm. The thickness of the head is 9.2mm and its weight is 4.48g. | Subjects: | Colchester Two-Piece Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Housley, Sarah - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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