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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. In the centre of the reverse of the wings there is a low-relief oval cell which is filled with a hard off-white substance, possibly clay or paste. The exterior of the wings are decorated with a transverse pair of grooves. 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 semi-circular. The bow head is decorated, as is the bow with a central vertical ridge which leads from the integral hook down the bow. The ridge gradually tapers. Only a fragment of the bow remains as it is broken. The break is recent as it does not have a developed patina. The surface of the brooch has a light green/grey shiny patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 24.25mm across the wings and 20.53mm long. It weighs 7.8g.
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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