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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 an iron axis bar. The wings are undecorated. The bow head has a large hump. In profile a slight under head bulge can also be seen. In the centre of the hump, at the junction of the wings is a backward facing hook. The head is undecorated except from two small moulded appendages on either side of the head. The bow of the brooch is sub-oval in cross-section. The bow is broken (not recent breaks) above the now missing catchplate. Looking at the reverse of the brooch, the spring is made of copper and is heavily corroded. The pin is missing. A single ridge runs longitudinally down the back of the bow. It is possible that this groove may have extended further to eventually form into the catchplate. The brooch is heavily corroded and in a poor condition. It is light green in colour. The width of the brooch across the wings is 26.9mm; the length from the wings to the foot is 43.5mm. The thickness of the head is 17.6 and its weight is 19.18g. 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.898).
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