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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy mid 1st century Romano-British 'Colchester type' brooch. This fragment represents the head and heavily truncated bow of the brooch. The wings are complete and semicylindrical. Behind the head is a lug with two perforations, now blocked with corrosion product. The spring coil and pin shaft is entirely missing. There is a moulded crest running from the head onto the bow. The bow is broken just below the point of the crest. It is oval in section and flattened, but it is not clear whether it tapered. The object is heavily abraded and the original surface of the brooch is missing. The exposed surface now has a mid green patina. The break edges are worn and similarly patinated suggesting that damage occurred in antiquity. The fragment is 112.92mm long, 15.4mm wide across the wings, 6.12mm wide across the crest, 2.2mm thick and weighs 1.21g. Brooches of this type date from 50-70AD. Examples 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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