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Description: | Polden Hill brooch
An incomplete cast copper alloy Dolphin brooch, dating to the 1st century, between AD 43 - 100 (length: 61mm; width at wings: 19mm; thickness/ depth: 23.5mm; weight: 20.12g). Bayley and Butcher (see bibliography below) have classified this type of brooch has having a hinged pin ??in a long crossbar, the bow arched in a single curve?? [page 89].
The brooch is T-shaped in plan and mostly D-shaped in section. At the top of the brooch, one of the wings is mostly missing with a slight jagged protrusion remaining. The other wing on the opposing side of the head mostly survives and protrudes out from the head by 6.5mm. The remaining hollow wing is sub-rectangular in plan and semi-cylindrical in section. The wing is decorated with three plainly incised lines running down its length. There is a central ridge running down the upper length of the bow by approximately 14.5mm with a width of 3.5mm. This ridge may have terminated in a rearward claw at the head of the artefact. The rest of the tapering bow is plain without any decoration and terminates at a corroded and rounded terminal at the opposing end.
At the back of the brooch, the wings are completely hollow with very little of the probable corroded iron spring mechanism surviving. There is no decoration on the back of the brooch. A small fragment of the integral cast copper alloy catchplate remains, which would have originally held the pin and brooch to an item of clothing. Overall, the artefact is in a worn and poor condition with a dark green patina. There is also a substantial amount of corrosion and bronze disease present at the wing terminals and upper part of the bow.
Similar examples are illustrated in Bayley, J & Butcher, S, 2004, ??Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection??, pages 89-90, fig 70, ref nos 206-7. | Subjects: | Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Johnson, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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