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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch of Polden Hill type. The brooch is made from cast copper alloy and is incomplete. Looking at the front of the brooch in plan, the brooch has short cylindrical wings with caps on each end. The caps are complete and perforated by a single hole. The semi-enclosed wings and wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar. The wings are undecorated. The bow head is humped and is flanked on either side by small, slightly concave, raised appendages. In the centre of the hump, at the junction of the wings are the remains of a backward facing lug or hook. The bow of the brooch is sub-circular in cross-section. A moulded knurled rib runs longitudinally down the front of the bow, stopping at the point where the catchplate begins to form on the reverse of the bow. The leg of the bow is shorter than the bow and is plain. The foot of the bow is also plain. Looking at the reverse of the brooch, one can see the remains of an iron chord. The spring is made of iron and is heavily corroded. The pin is missing. The back of the brooch is flat and undecorated; only a small part of the catchplate remains, the rest is missing. The brooch is heavily corroded and in a poor condition. It is a dark matt green-grey colour. The width of the brooch across the wings is 18.1mm; the length from the wings to the foot is 35.3mm. The thickness of the head is 13.2 and its weight is 9.44g. Hattatt (Hattatt, R 1987. Brooches of Antiquity. Oxbow: Oxford) illustrates an example which is similar to, but more complete than the recorded object (see fig. 34; no. 900).
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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