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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal, however the caps are incomplete. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile, but is slightly angular being decorated with two vertical rectangular cells which continue down the bow until the apex. These cells were probably filled with enamel originally, but there is no trace now. The bow is oval in section and the lower portion tapers to a blunt broken point and is undecorated. There is a trace of the catchplate on the reverse of the bow, but most of it is missing. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete brown/green patina. It measures 29.24mm long, 17.73mm wide and weighs 4.1g. The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 75 to 175 AD (Worrell unpublished).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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