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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. Six coils remain, and originally there were eight plus the pin. However the pin is now missing. There is a down-turned hook, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. This hook originally held the horizontal bar of the spring in place, but the bar is now missing. The bow head is an angular hump in profile. The bow head is decorated with moulding on the edges. The moulding forms three curvaceous notches. Down the centre of the bow head and upper portion of the bow the decoration conistis of a vertical rectangular cell filled with a intermittent pale green which may be corroded red enamel. The decoration on the bow is then a pair of vertical ridges which tapers with the bow to the bow foot. The bow foot 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 dark green well developed patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 19.12mm across the wings and 53.29mm long. It weighs 12.6g.
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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