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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 holds the copper alloy axis bar in place. Around the axis bar the copper alloy spring is wound. It is not clear how many coils form the spring. The pin is missing. There is a small down-turned hook, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. This hook holds the horizontal bar of the spring in place. The bow head is hump-like in profile, and in section is an elongated semi-circle. The bow head and bow is undecorated. The bow gradually tapers to a broken edge on the lower portion of the bow. The break is not recent as the patina covers the edges of the break. The reverse of the bow has a vertical ridge which would have originally developed into the catchplate. The surface of the brooch has a mottled mid green well developed patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 25.69mm across the wings and 34.96mm long. It weighs 19.1g.
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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