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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy Romano-British, two piece Colchester derivative brooch. This fragment represents the head and beginnings of the bow of the brooch. The side wings are complete, semi cylindrical and plain. Originally there would have been two pierced lugs behind the head that the chord and axial bar of the spring would have passed through. Only one of these lugs remains complete, the other, top most lug, being broken. The spring is entirely missing. The bow of the brooch appears to taper. It is decorated with a deep groove that presumably ran the length of the brooch. The patina of the fragment is an even dark brown. All the breaks are worn and similarly patinated, suggesting they occurred in antiquity. The remaining length of the brooch is 18.8mm, it is 27.34mm wide across the wings, 7.32mm wide across the bow, 3.88mm thick and weighs 5.72g. A complete example of this type of brooch, though with different decoration, can be seen in Crummy 1983, figure 6, number 52. Brooches of this type date to between 50 and 70AD.
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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