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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal. Through the perforations a fragment of the copper alloy axis bar remains. Around the axis bar, the incomplete spring is coiled six times. The pin has broken off from the brooch and is missing. The wings are decorated with expanded terminals which have fine transverse notches around the edge. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is decorated with a central vertical ridge with transverse notches. This is bordered by a smaller ridge on either side. This decoration continues down the bow and tapers away at approximately the midpoint. The bow is semi-circular in section and tapers to a rounded blunt foot. The catchplate is complete with a sub-triangular openwork in the centre. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete mid brown patina. It measures 66.14mm long, 26.55mm wide and weighs 23.5g. The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 75 to 175 AD (Worrell unpublished). Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands.
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