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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative (Polden Hill style) brooch of Roman date (43-120 AD). The wings are incomplete although the remnants are semi-cylindrical. The perforated wing / end caps are lost as are the axis bar and spring. The reverse of the head of the brooch is filled with a grey coloured material possibly used as an adhesive or similar product to help secure the spring. The bow head is hump-like, and angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow is D shaped in cross section. It extends to a pointed tapered slightly out-turned foot. The catch-plate is lost.
The brooch measures 49.4mm length, 19mm width across wings, 11.3mm width across bow, is 10mm thick across the bow, and weighs 14.93 grams.
The brooch does not seem to be decorated with cast or incised designs, although it is heavily abraded which may have removed this detail. The brooch is a mid purple brown colour with patches of light green corrosion product. It has been heavily abraded and stripped by chemicals in the soil. Movement in the plough soil has also distorted the profile of the brooch. Similar, better preserved brooches can be seen in Richard Hattatt??s Visual Guide to Ancient brooches pp 300 fig; 159 and Bayley and Butcher: Roman Brooches in Britain pp 89-92. These are usually dated to the early Roman period, 1st ??early 2nd century and are thought to be a local brooch type typical of the West Midlands and Mid Wales. | Subjects: | Polden Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Reavill, Peter - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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