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Description: | Incomplete Colchester two piece brooch of copper alloy. Only a part of the bow remains, although most of the head survives. The spring and pin are missing. Much of the object is covered in a black patina, although some of the edges are damaged. It weighs 4.08g and measures 25x17.5mm.
Part of a lug with two perforations, through which the spring and cord would have threaded, remain. Both perforations are damaged. The arms of the cross bar curve around the front of the absent spring and were decorated with at least one transverse groove each side of the bow. The edges are chipped and broken, so it is unknown how far they extended. The bow has a maximum width of 10mm and has a ridge, standing 4mm high, along their centre. This is roughly triangular in cross section. Along its peak may have been some decoration, although some of the indentations are damage obscuring any pattern. Either side of this is a shoulder from which the ridge curves into the body of the bow. The reverse of the bow is flat and file marks are present.
The brooch is similar in decoration to Hattatt (1989) 872, and in spring attachment to 1462. Colchester brooches are most common through the middle of the 1st century AD (Bayley and Butcher 2004, pp. 148-150). | Subjects: | Colchester | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Wood, Rachel | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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