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Description: | Fragment of a Roman Colchester-two piece brooch of copper alloy with a spring mechanism. The head is present. The spring, pin and most of the bow are missing. The surface is corroded and much of the patina is lost. It measures 14x12.5mm and weighs 1.77g. The short arms are curved around the space for the spring, which would have been held by the lug. The lug has only one perforation and is prolonged over the axial bar. The bow is oval in cross section and is humped, a feature which is magnified by the heightend lug. As the patina is missing on the front of the bow, it is unknown whether it was originally decorated.The single perforation in the lug is unusal. Usually there were two, one to hold the axial bar and one the cord. There may have been a break a the top of the lug where the surface is uneven. This suface is still patinated, suggesting that if this is a break, rather than crude workmanship, it is old. Interestingly, where the arms join the bow on the reverse there are two diagonal lines of wear, again patinated. These may have been caused by metal wound round the bow to hold the pin in place, c.f. Hattatt (1989, object 403).Two piece Colchester derivative brooches date from the mid 1st century (Bayley and Butcher 2004, pp 157).
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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