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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British 'Colchester' two piece type brooch. One wing is complete, though worn, and semicylindrical with a length of 7.16mm, the other is entirely missing. Behind the head is a lug pierced with two circular perforations, one of which is now blocked with corrosion product. The spring coil and pin shafts are entirely missing. The bow is complete except for some damage at the very tip of the foot. The bow is tapering, flattened in section and presumably ended without a foot knob. The curled catchplate is mostly complete, with only a small fragment of the lower curl missing. The catchplate has a large triangular perforation and is grooved for the pin. Most of the original surface remains, but it is patchy in places. The original surface has a mid green patina, whilst the exposed areas beneath are yellowy green. The broken edges are worn and similarly patinated suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch appears undecorated, except for a centrally incised line that runs for the first third of the bow. The brooch has a surviving length of 53.42mm, 4.94mm wide across the bow, is 2.44mm thick and weighs 3.40g. Because there is no moulded crest, this brooch is likely to be a Colchester BB type brooch, which date from between 65-80AD. An example can be seen in Crummy 1983, figure 6, number 53.
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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