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Description: | The object is a brooch, replicating a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Polden Hill type. Usually these types of brooches date to the 1st to 2nd century, when they are made from copper alloy. However, this brooch is made from lead or lead alloy, and no comparison can be found.
The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The wings are now misshapen and slightly crumpled, This damage does not look too recent. The wing caps do not have the central hole, like their copper alloy comparisons. These holes would have held in place an axis bar. Also missing is a spring and pin. However the lack of wing cap holes suggests they were never in place. The reverse of the wings has a deep central hollow, which is found in copper alloy examples, but these are sometimes filled with a black substance. The bow head is hump-like and undecorated. The bow head tapers toward the bow. The bow is sub-circular in section and does not appear to taper towards the bow foot as many copper alloy examples do. In plan the bow is twisted and forms an almost 90?? angle. The bow is undecorated. The bow terminates with an over-sized foot, which is an inverted conical shape, with a rounded tip. Integral to the tip is a smaller elongated curved knop. On the reverse of the bow, there is a crumpled integral catchplate. The catchplate is solid and undecorated. The surface of the fibula is heavily oxidised, with occasional recent scrapes on the bow head, wing and bow, which reveals a dark grey metal.
The brooch measures 47.36mm long from the upper edge of the wings to the lower edge of the catchplate, and is 26.19mm wide across the wings. It weighs 40.14g. | Subjects: | Colchester Two Piece Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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