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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps at each terminal. The caps have a central perforation which would originally support the axis bar. Only a fragment of a copper alloy axis bar remains with five coils of the spring curled around it, however his is no longer attached to the brooch. The pin is missing. The upper edge of the wings has a small downturned hook at the centre. The hook would have originally held the cross bar of the spring in place. The wings are undecorated. The bow head is hump-like in profile and is slightly angular. It is decorated with a ??Y?? shaped indentation which continues down the bow. The bow is semi-circular in section and is decorated with transverse ridges either side of the central indentation. The bow is broken towards the foot, it is not a recent break, however the patina does not cover it. There is a trace of the catchplate on the reverse of the bow before it is broken. The brooch has a well developed, but incomplete light grey/green patina. It measures 29.39mm long, 18.24mm wide and weighs 8.8g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 80 to 120 AD (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160). Bayley and Butcher go on to comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands. | Subjects: | 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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