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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps each have a small central hole which originally held the axis bar in place. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. There is a small down-turned hook, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. Originally this would have held the spring in place. The bow head is hump-like in profile, and in section is a pointed oval. However the bow head, at the junction with the wings has a transverse ??V?? shaped slot. The bow head is decorated, as is the bow with a fine low-relief line bordering the sides. The bow gradually tapers to bow foot which is slightly bulbous and is oval in section. The reverse of the lower portion of the bow has a solid catch plate. The surface of the brooch has a light green/grey shiny patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 15.26mm across the wings and 46.34mm long. It weighs 7.7g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill 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). Bayley and Butcher go on to comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches is concentrated in the West Midlands. | 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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