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Description: | Cast copper alloy Colchester brooch. The pin and half the bilateral spring (originally of eight coils) is missing. The external chord is pressed forward and secured by a forward facing hook on top of the head. The end of the chord hook is embellished with two transverse grooves. The spring is obscured by two delicately moulded wings, both of which are embellished with longitudinal ridges. The bow is narrow, of hexagonal-section, forms one continuous curve in profile and tapers towards a plain foot. The back of the bow is marked with a series of irregularly spaced, transverse grooves. The cause and function of these grooves is not obvious; they are presumably not decorative although they appear to have been deliberately applied with a punch. The unperforated catch-plate is damaged and incomplete, but originally extended for just over a third of the bow length. The finder has replaced the missing part of the spring and pin with a finely crafted replica manufactured from solder wire. Length 44mm, maximum original width 16mm (estimated). The brooch is an example of a Colchester type of brooch; a type current in southern Britain during the first century AD. Its small size suggests that it is of the sub-type known as the "Small-Late" group (Mackreth 1994, 287) which date to the middle fifty years of the first century AD (Mackreth 1994, 288). Colchester type brooches are so named because of the large numbers excavated at Camulodunum. This form of brooch is distinguished from its contemporaries by the use of a forward facing overhead hook to accommodate the chord; this arrangement apparently originated on the Continent during the second half of the first century BC (Hattatt 1987, 29-30). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 25
60 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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