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Description: | A copper-alloy Colchester type brooch of 1st century AD date. The brooch is incomplete, bent and corroded. The head is narrow and the wings are little more than flat corroded projections. A damaged protrusion at the centre of the underside of the head possibly represents part of the spring mechanism, or may be the perforated lug which would have held the now-missing axis bar. Above this protrusion is a complete but bent sideways rearward lug. The bow is of flattened-oval section and tapers to a pointed foot. Only a fraction of the catchplate exists and the pin is also missing. The brooch measures 65.4mm long, 14mm wide (head) and 24.2mm deep. The metal has a rough red patina, with little of the original surface surviving. A very similar example on the database is BH-160BB4.
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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