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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal, which have a central perforation. Through the perforations there is a copper alloy axis bar. Around the axis bar, the spring is coiled 11 times with the horizontal chord missing. The pin has broken off from the brooch. The wings are decorated with vertical grooves. In the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is an up turned hook which originally would have supported the chord. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is triangular in section and this section shape continues down the bow until it is broken at the approximate midpoint. The break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete dark green patina. It measures 28.28mm long, 28.73mm wide and weighs 11.1g. The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 75 to 175 AD (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter). Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands.
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