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Description: | Fragment of copper-alloy Polden Hill brooch. Only the head and upper bow of the brooch survives. The width of the brooch across the wings is 18.7mm and the length from the wings to the tip of the bow is 25.9mm. The wings of the brooch are semi-cylindrical terminating with wing caps. At the centre of each wing cap is a hole. These holes support the iron, sub-circular sectioned axis bar. Around the axis bar the copper alloy spring is coiled. There are now only two coils around the axis bar remaining. The pin is missing. On the upper edge, in the centre of the wings there is a small hook which would have supported the spring. The bow head is humped and is decorated with two columns of triangular shaped cells. These columns continue down the bow. The bow is semi-circular in section and tapers gradually to a broken edge, at approximately the mid-point. This break is not recent. The surface of the brooch, has a dark green/brown coloured patina. The style of the wings suggest the brooch is a Polden Hill type. The hump-back shape of the bow may also suggest a Polden Hill type. The Polden Hill types tend to be dated to the 1st century according to Hattat. No. 377 in Hattat is similar in profile, but not in decoration.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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