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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative (Polden Hill style) brooch of Roman date (43-150AD). The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing / end caps. The wing caps are complete and the axis bar and spring are present. The pin is missing. The pin / spring is attached by an external chord to a rearward facing hook, the remnants of which are located at the centre of the wings on the upper edge. The spring is formed from copper alloy wire turned eight times and attached with an external chord. The axis bar is iron and has corroded. The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow is D shaped in cross section. It extends to a thickened flared blunted point of a foot. It is possible that originally it was a turned cylindrical bulbous knop / foot which has since been heavily abraded. The catch-plate is incomplete. It is formed from a rectangular central rib that begins below the head of the brooch on the reverse side. This rib expands and was most likely to be triangular in profile, however this has been lost by abrasion in the soil.
The brooch measures 45.3mm length, 17.5mm width (across wings), 10mm width across bow, is 4.3mm thick across the bow, and weighs 10.77 grams.
The brooch is decorated with cast motifs which have been heavily abraded. The only distinct decoration are two lugs at the junction between the wing and bow of the brooch. The other area is a suggestion of an incised decorated double vertical line which extends from the rearward facing hook along the length of the bow to the foot knop. Detail of this has almost been lost through a combination of abrasion and corrosion. The brooch is a mid brown green colour with an even but much abraded patina. Where abrasion has occurred it is most evident on the external faces of the brooch. Movement in the plough soil has also distorted the profile of the brooch especially the wing caps. There is little evidence of active corrosion present. Similar brooches can be seen in Richard Hattatt??s Visual Guide to Ancient brooches pp 300 fig; 159 and Bayley and Butcher: Roman Brooches in Britain pp 89-92. | Subjects: | Two part Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Reavill, Peter - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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