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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Polden Hill type. Hattat dates these types of brooches to the 1st century. No. 897 in Hattat has a similar shaped bow head in profile. It has been made from cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The wing caps are incomplete, therefore the axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. In the centre of the cylinder there is a slight void which has been filled with a matt black, possibly ceramic, substance. There is usually a small hook at the centre of the wings on the upper edge, but this is missing. The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular. It is undecorated and is abraded. The bow is semi-circular in section and is undecorated. It tapers to a broken terminal at approximately the mid point of the bow. This point appears to originally had a conical shaped cell, and therefore was particularly weak. The break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has patches of a grey/green coloured patina. The brooch measures 27.1mm long, 24.9mm wide and weighs 8.66g.
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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