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Description: | Polden hill brooch
Roman 50-200
Length 24mm, width 17mm, thickness 5mm
Copper alloy, semicircular, concave cross-sectioned wings with a backwards facing lug on either end. Both lugs have a hole in the centre for the spring support bar (missing), which would have held the spring. The head of the bow gradually narrows as it runs downwards. Remains of a loop in the back of the head to support the spring. Very slight step either side of the head. Recessed convex line runs down the length from the loop. There appear to be a series of trapezoid like steeped decoration 9 (the short edge faces the central groove) on either side down its length. The leg is missing.
Dark green patina some of the surface of the head has flaked away the leg is missing the right wing is damaged and the extremities have been corroded, these areas have a light green powdery corrosion layer.
Similar examples can be found in Hattatt (2000, 300) and excavated examples have been found at Frocester (Price, 2000,35-37). These type of brooch dates to the late 1st century into the 2nd century. | Subjects: | polden hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adams, Kurt - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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