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Description: | A damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester brooch dating to the late Iron Age to early Roman period (c. 25 - c. 60 AD). A one-piece example, it retains its rearward facing hook at the top of the head, although this has been bent round on itself and also to one side. The hook holds the external chord of the spring. On the side from which the spring emerges three-and-a-half coils survive. On the other side the axis bar/spring has been broken and twisted; the pin has been lost. The wing of this side has been bent round on itself. The other perpendicular wing is sub-rectangular in form and does not cover the whole of the spring coil (L.: c. 6.5mm). It is seemingly decorated on its upper surfaces by a number of transverse grooves. The curve from head through to bow goes through ninety degrees. The bow is the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners in cross-section. Seemingly plain, it follows a gentle arc, tapering from 6.9mm at the head to c. 3.7mm at the foot. The bow is broken at this point, with neither the foot nor the catchplate below surviving. This brooch is now largely a dark red-brown colour with some dark patches. | Subjects: | one-piece 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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