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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Late Iron Age to Early Roman Colchester one-piece brooch of 1st century AD date. The brooch measures 10.2mm wide at the head. The wings are flat, and stunted following old breaks. The top of the head is occupied by a rearward hook, similarly incomplete. The bow is sub-circular in section, being slightly flattened on its sides. It tapers to a point at the catchplate end. The bow has also been bent at the cathcplate end: at a shallow angle from the end of the catchplate opposite the terminal, and then at nearly ninety degrees around halfway down the part of the bow below which the catchplate was situated. The catchplate itself has been largely abraded away such that it is no longer possible to tell whether it would have featured any decorative perforations; neither it nor the bow appear to be otherwise decorated. The pin is missing, as are the coils. The brooch as a whole measures 14.0mm high and weighs 3.8g. | Subjects: | Colchester | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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