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Description: | A cast copper alloy brooch. The wings of the brooch are semi-cylindrical, with no wing caps. In the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is a small integral rectangular sectioned down-turned hook. The wings are decorated with a pair of transverse linear grooves. The spring, pin, and axis bar are missing. The bow head is hump-like and in profile it rises above the upper edge of the wings. The bow head is decorated with a pair of parallel transverse grooves at the junction of the hook and bow head. Otherwise the bow head and bow are undecorated. The bow is sub-semi circular in section and tapers to a blunt point. The solid catch plate is complete. The surface of the brooch has a well developed dark green patina with traces of a white metal alloy on the wings. The brooch measures 39.59mm long from the bow head to the bow foot, and 16.77mm wide across the wings. It weighs 3.7g. The object is a Colchester Two-Piece Brooch, a Dolphin type which dates to the late 1st to 2nd century AD (Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries).
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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