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Description: | Romano-British, copper alloy Colchester derivative brooch of the Polden Hills type. The brooch contains a bilateral spring of apparently six coils whose overhead chord is held in place by a simple rearward-facing hook. A copper alloy axis bar passes through the coils of the spring and is held by pierced circular plates at the ends of the wings (cf. type L Hattatt 1982, 49, table 2). The wings are semi-cylindrical and both accommodate and hide from view the spring mechanism. The pierced circular plates at the ends of the wings are larger than the wings giving them the appearance of decorative moulded ribs. Flat circular mouldings or "appendages" are present either side of the bow adjacent to the wings. The top of the head is decorated with three low, moulded ribs while the surviving, upper part of the tapering, bow is decorated with three narrow longitudinal ridges which bisect a series of transverse rib-like mouldings. The entire surface of the brooch, including the pin, is plated with white metal, presumably tin. The lower part of the pin, the end of the bow and the catch-plate are missing. Mid-first to mid-second century in date. Length (minimum) 40mm, width of head 20.5mm, weight 10.7 grams. | 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: | 43
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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