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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 raised appendages. In the centre of the hump, at the junction of the wings are the heavily corroded remains of a backward facing lug or hook. The bow of the brooch is semi-circular in cross-section. It is possible that the bow may have once been decorated. Pitting to the surface and heavy abrasion however, means that any decoration is now indistinct. The bow is complete, but does not have a foot. Instead the bow tapers to a blunt point. A single central ridge runs longitudinally down the reverse of the bow to eventually form a short, sub-triangular catchplate. The catchplate is quite abraded and slightly damaged around its perimeter. There is no pin rest. The spring of which ten turns remain is made of copper, the pin however is missing. The brooch is heavily abraded and in a poor condition. It is dark matt brown in colour, with patches of active red copper corrosion. The width of the brooch across the wings is 18.9mm; the length from the wings to the foot is 40.1mm. The thickness of the head is 12.3 and its weight is 8.86g.
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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