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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps have a small central hole which originally held the axis bar in place. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The exterior of the wings are decorated with transverse grooves on each wing. There is a small lug with a central hole, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. This originally held the horizontal bar of the spring in place. The bow head is hump-like and tapers to an oval sectioned bow. The bow head and bow is undecorated. The bow is incomplete as it is broken. The break is possibly recent as the surface of the break does not match the surface of the brooch. The surface of the brooch has traces of a mid green patina otherwise the surface is corroded and slightly abraded. The brooch is in a fair condition, and is incomplete. It measures 28.43mm across the wings and 23.6mm long. It weighs 10.2g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which 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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