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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman hinged Polden Hill brooch. The brooch has a cross bar consisting of two side-wings with a sub-oval, almost D-shaped section, attached to the head and transverse bow which have a humped, comma shaped profile. The bow has a broadly D shaped profile towards the head (with a flatter reverse), becoming oval towards the foot. The catchplate is missing. There is a transverse slot at the rear of the brooch between the side-wings in which the axis-bar is visible, but the pin which it would have held is missing. Whilst broadly oval in section, the rear of the wings is flatter. The wings have pierced end caps, to secure the axis-bar, the ends of which are still visible. The terminals of each wing have raised collars which highlight the end caps. There is also a raised collar visible where one wing meets the head, continuing as a raised V-shaped design between the wings below the head and bow. This raised feature is further decorated with a groove within the edges adjoining the wings. The brooch is very heavily pitted, no further decoration is visible.
The original surface remains on portions of the brooch, where there is a well developed green patina. The brooch is 51.1mm long, 41.2mm wide across the wings and 21mm from front to reverse. It weighs 34.4g.
In her ??Brooch Timeline??, Worrell (2007) dates the Polden Hill brooch to AD75-AD175. | Subjects: | Hinged Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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