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Description: | The brooch is a Two-Piece Polden Hill type brooch which is made from cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The wing caps have a central hole which support a copper alloy axis bar. Around the axis bar the spring is coiled, with four complete coils and two incomplete. The pin is missing completely, probably due to corrosion. The bow head is hump-like, with an abraded vertical ridge at the junction with the wing upper edge. The bow head in profile forma an inverted 'L' shape. Protruding from the centre of the bow head is the integral bow, which is nearly completely missing. The fragment of bow visible is semi-circular in section. The break maybe quite recent, due to corrosion. The surface of the brooch is poor and has traces of a mid green patina. It measures 16.3mm long by 17.1mm wide across the wings. It weighs 3.71g. Hattat has a similar shaped brooch, No. 905 which he dates to the 1st century.
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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