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Description: | A Late Iron Age to Early Roman Colchester brooch, from the 1st century AD. The brooch has been cast in copper alloy. The remaining part of the brooch consists of an almost complete bow, complete wings and part of the external chord and the spring mechanism. The bow is long and thin, it has probably thinned considerably through wear. The section is oval. The wings survive almost in full but are well worn. The spring mechanism partially survives, and has a coil of four turns on the left. The surviving fragment of external chord sits parallel to the wings, and rests inside the loop on top of the wings. The remains of the catch plate are triangular in shape, with a notch cut out of the side opposite the bow and a circular perforation; the edges are worn and thinned. The pin is missing.
The metal surface is well worn. The metal has a light greyish-green to mid brown colour. This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, pp296, Fig. 155. | Subjects: | Colchester | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Clifford, Trista - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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