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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Polden Hill type. It has been made from cast copper alloy. Polden Hill type brooches date to the first century. Hattatt illustrates a similar brooch in Brooches of Antiquity, No. 898. The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with wing caps. The wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar, around which the spring is coiled. There 7 coils around the axis bar. The two external coils unusually wrap themselves around the external surface of the wings and under the bow head. More usually the coils form a horizontal bar above the spring which is held in place by a small hook. The hook is in place on this example but is not used to support the spring. The pin is complete, protruding from between the centre of the coils. The pin tapers slightly to a blunt point. The bow head is hump-like and is undecorated. The bow is semi circular in section terminating with a slightly bulbous bow foot. The bow is also undecorated. The catch plate is solid and complete, and the curve of the catch plate is holding the pin in place. The brooch has traces developed a mottled mid green coloured patina. It weighs 14.94g, and measures 18.9mm wide and 55.2mm long.
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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