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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy Romano-British 'Colchester' two piece brooch. The wings on this brooch fragment are complete, semicylindrical and plain. Behind the head is a transverse lug that would have had two circular perforations that would have held the spring in place. The holes are now blocked with corrosion product. The spring and pin are entirely missing but a fraction of the spring coil survives next to one side of the lug. On the head of the brooch is a crest that runs onto the bow. This then continues on as a raised mid rib that runs the surviving length of the brooch. The bow is flattened and subrectangular in section. The bow is truncated but clearly tapers. Nothing remains of the foot or catchplate. The patina of the object is light green with bright green corrosion on the remains of the spring coil. The break on the bow is worn smooth and similarly patinated suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch has a surviving length of 21.5mm, is 17.4mm wide across the wings, 8.08mm wide across the bow, 3mm thick and weighs 2.84g. Brooches of this type date from between 50-70AD. Examples of this type can be seen in Crummy 1983, figure 6.
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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