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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative (Polden Hill style) brooch of Roman date (43-150AD). The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing / end caps. The wing caps are incomplete and the axis bar, spring are lost. The pin is missing. The pin / spring would have been attached by an external chord to a rearward facing hook which is located at the centre of the wings on the upper edge. There is a large sub-circular concave hollow positioned between the wings on the reverse of the head, this hollow is slightly conical in shape and relatively deep (5.7mm). The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow is D shaped in cross section. It extends to a blunted heavily abraded point. The catch-plate is also lost. It is formed from a rectangular central rib that begins below the head of the brooch on the reverse side. This rib expands and would probably have been triangular in profile, with one side being slightly concave. The brooch measures 55.4mm length, 20.5mm width (across wings), 9.7mm width across bow, is 7mm thick across the bow, and weighs 15.2 grams. The brooch is relatively plain with very few decorative motifs on this brooch. It is possible that many of these have been lost due to abrasion. The only area clearly seen are two relatively shallow lugs positioned at the junction between the wings and bow of the brooch. The brooch is a light green colour with an even but much abraded patina. Where abrasion has occurred it is most evident on the external faces of the brooch. Movement in the plough soil has also distorted the profile of the brooch especially the wing caps. There is a considerable amount of active corrosion present. Similar brooches can be seen in Richard Hattatt's Visual Guide to Ancient brooches pp 300 fig; 159 and Bayley and Butcher: Roman Brooches in Britain pp 89-92.
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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