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Description: | Fragment of early Roman Polden Hill Type brooch dating from the late 1st-2nd century. Only part of the bow, spring cover and hook survive. The only decoration are mouldings around the end caps and around the bottom of the bow, where it meets the spring case. The brooch displays the remains of the characteristic spring system with an axis bar (missing) passing through the coils (missing)and held in place by a pierced plate at the end of the wings, calles 'end cap'. The chord (missing) was secured by the rearward facing hook at the back of the brooch. | Subjects: | Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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