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Description: | Incomplete Colchester two-piece brooch made from copper alloy. The bow is decorated with two slight longitudinal ridges, each transversely ribbed. The foot is missing (old break) and there are hints of slight transverse ridging across the lower part of the bow near the break. The two ridges merge at the top of the bow to develop into a central crest which has a notch cut across it; behind the notch are two perforations for the axis bar and the chord of the spring. There is iron corrosion blocking the lower hole, presumably from the axis bar, but there is a small fragment of copper-alloy wire within the upper hole, presumably from the spring chord. One wing is missing (old break); the other is curved in cross-section, and undecorated except for a possible groove across the end. The surviving portion of the brooch is 32 mm long and 18 mm wide; it weighs 5.78g. 1st century AD. | Subjects: | Colchester two piece | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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