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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with one wing missing. The remaining wing has an incomplete wing cap with a small circular hole to support the axis bar. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. There is an integral lug with a hole in the centre, positioned transversally in the centre of the upper edge of the wings. The hole is filled with a fragment of copper alloy wire which originally was part of the spring mechanism. The wings are otherwise undecorated. The bow head is slightly hump-like in profile and is sub-rectangular in section. The bow head is decorated with a prominent vertical ridge running from the lug on the upper edge of the wings. This ridge tapers to a point on the bow. Either side of the ridge on the bow and bow head there is a finer ridge forming a border. The bow tapers to a broken terminal. The break is possibly recent as the break has a different surface condition to the majority of the surface. Due to the break the bow foot and catch plate are also missing. The surface of the brooch has a mid grey/green patina with traces of a white alloy coating. The brooch is in quite a poor condition and is incomplete. It measures 20.73mm across the wings and 23.57mm long, weighing 5.7g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill variant type, which probably dates to the mid 1st century into the 2nd (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries). Hattatt (Hattat, R 1985 Iron Age and Roman Brooches Oxbow) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 382 which he describes as being a Polden Hill variant. Bayley and Butcher (2004) go on to comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches is concentrated in the West Midlands. | Subjects: | Polden Hill Variant | 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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