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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 short semi-cylindrical wings with caps on each end. The wings and the caps have both been damaged and are incomplete (not recent breaks). Grooves in what is left of the caps, indicates where the perforations used to support the axis bar would have been. The axis bar, the spring and the pin are now missing. The bow head is slightly humped. In the centre of the hump, at the junction of the wings are the remains of an incomplete backward facing lug, with a single hole. The bow of the brooch is D-shaped in cross-section and slightly curved in profile. 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 quite short in length, tapering to a blunt point. No evidence for a catchplate can be found. The brooch is light green in colour, heavily abraded and in a poor condition. Due to the high degree of abrasion, it is difficult to say if the blunt point of the bow represents the actual foot or rather a break which occurred above the catchplate. The width of the brooch across the wings is 16.9mm; the length from the wings to the base of the bow is 28.9mm. The thickness of the head is 7.6 and its weight is 4.20g.
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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