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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps have a small central hole which originally held the axis bar in place. Only a fragment of the copper alloy axis bar remains. This fragment has two coils of the spring curled around it. The coils are what remains of the spring. The pin is also missing. The exterior of the wings are decorated with a two pairs of transverse grooves on each wing. There is a small lug with a central hole, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. This holds the horizontal bar of the spring in place. The bow head has an inverted 'L' shape profile, and in section is a semi-circle. The bow head is decorated, as is the bow with a central vertical ridge which leads from the integral lug down the bow. The ridge gradually tapers to a point at the upper portion of the bow. The bow is incomplete as it is broken. The break is possibly recent as the surface of the break does not match the surface of the brooch. The surface of the brooch has a well developed mid green patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, and is incomplete. It measures 25.17mm across the wings and 27.15mm long. It weighs 6.4g. The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to the mid 1st century into the 2nd (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries). Bayley and Butcher go on to comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches is concentrated in the West Midlands.
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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