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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 wings on the reverse there is an incomplete vertical lug with a central perforation. Above this lug to the bow head is a connecting band forming another void. This void may have held the horizontal chord originally and the perforated lug held the axis bar. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated and are slightly asymmetrical. The bow head is hump-like and in profile it rises above the upper edge of the wings. The bow head and bow are undecorated. The bow is oval in section and tapers to a broken point above the midpoint. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete dark green/grey patina. The brooch measures 21.3mm long from the bow head to the bow break, and 18.53mm wide across the wings. It weighs 5.2g. 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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