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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Polden Hill brooch, missing its forward-facing hook, spring mechanism, pin, lower bow and much of the catchplate.
The wingspan is 35.8mm and the wings are C-shaped in section. To the front they are decorated with grooves and corresponding ribs. At either end are three ribs either side of a wide groove, beyond which is another wide groove flanked on its other side by a rib and groove.
The characteristic Polden Hill lugs project backwards. Both are pierced, one hole of which is broken while the other is surrounded by iron corrosion, suggesting an iron axis bar.
The top of the bow extends from above the wings and presumably connected to the forward-facing hook (which is now missing, probably recent break). The edge against which the chord would have rested is flat and smooth.
Either side of the bow, where it joins to the wings, is a moulded rib. The underneath of the bow extends from a V-shaped platform bounded by these ribs.
The bow is 7.5mm wide and 7.8mm thick where it extends from the wings. It is roughly D-shaped in section with a rib that runs its entirety, to the break at the lower bow. This rib is decorated with tiny horizontal lines. Either side of the rib is a C-shape (curves facing the rib) and below a diagonal line, finishing up by touching the rib. At this point the catchplate extends to the rear, almost all of which is missing.
The bow narrows over its length (60.8mm, max. length of the incomplete brooch) to 3mm wide and 4.3mm thick at the oval-sectioned ancient break.
The bow is slightly bent to one side.
Weighs 17.13g.
1st century AD. | Subjects: | Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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