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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Polden Hill brooch from the Roman period. The brooch consists of the head, bow, two semi-cylindrical horizontal wings with pierced closed ends, and a hook on the head. The wings would have held the axis bar, spring and pin, all of which are missing, and the external chord would have been secured by the hook (for a description of the Polden Hill type, See Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 33-34 and p159). There is a recess in the reverse of the head, within the hollow (concave) crossbar. The bow, which has a humped profile and is broadly D shaped in section, tapers and is broken towards the foot. There is no catchplate, against which the pin would have been secured. A median rib runs down the brooch, tapering from the hook on the head and terminating on the bow. This, together with two vertical ribs on each of the wings, is decorated with a series of transverse grooves. There is a further rib on both edges of the bow, tapering from the head and terminating approximately half way down the bow. This does not appear to be further decorated.
The brooch has a well developed green patina. The brooch is 29.9 mm long, 21.5mm wide is 12mm from front to reverse. It weighs 6.5g. Bayley and Butcher (ibid. p159) explain that the Polden Hill type of brooch, ????exhibits a distinctive method of attaching the spring: it is carried in a semi-cylindrical crossbar which has closed ends to secure the axial rod, while the chord is held by a hook or crest on the head.?? In her ??Roman Brooch Timeline??, Worrell (2007) dates Polden Hill brooches to AD75-175. Bayley and Butcher (ibid. p 160) state that the main development of this type appears to have taken place in the West Midlands and that more recent finds have confirmed a concentration in this region. | Subjects: | 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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