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Description: | The object 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 long semi-cylindrical wings with the caps on each end. The wings are slightly damaged around the edges, while the caps are both damaged and incomplete (not recent breaks). Grooves in what is left of the caps, indicates where the holes used to support the axis bar would have been. The perimeter of the wing caps are decorated by a single rib and a finely incised groove. The wings are undecorated. The axis bar, the spring and the pin are now missing The bow head has a large hump and is flanked on either side by slightly protruding appendages. In the centre of the hump, at the junction of the wings are the remains of an incomplete backward facing lug or hook. The bow of the brooch is sub-oval in cross-section and is decorated by a single groove which runs longitudinally down the centre of the bow. At the top of the hump the same groove splints in two to form a 'Y' shape. The two groves then continue to run either side of the hook/lug on the top of the head. The rest of the brooch is undecorated. The bow of the brooch is broken and the foot is missing. Looking at the reverse of the brooch, the catchplate begins almost immediately under the brooch head, in the form of a 2mm wide, sub-rectangular ridge. The catchplate unfortunately has been damaged and the rest of it is now missing. The brooch is dark green in colour with no original patina. It shows little sign of wear apart from the base of the bow which is pitted. The width of the brooch across the wings is 26.2mm; the length from the wings to the base of the bow is 51.7mm. The thickness of the head is 13.3 and its weight is 13.53g.
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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