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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical but heavily abraded, therefore the terminals are missing. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. There is a small incomplete lug which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. This hook would originally hold the horizontal bar of the spring. The bow head is hump-like in profile, and in section it is an oval. The bow head and bow is decorated with a pair of parallel vertical grooves. The bow gradually tapers to a broken edge at approximately the mid point of the bow. The break is possibly recent as the surface does not match the surface of the brooch. The surface of the brooch is heavily abraded. The brooch is in a poor condition, and incomplete. The brooch measures 13.79mm across the wings and 25.15mm long. It weighs 6.7g.
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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