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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece Brooch which is possibly a Polden Hill type made from cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical which terminate with capped ends. The caps each have a small central hole, however the caps are now incomplete. In the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is the remains of a possible small hook. And above this on the bow head is another heavily abraded protrusion. Both these protrusions form a 'U' shape in profile, originally they may have formed a loop.
The axis bar, spring and pin is missing. The width of the wings is 17.6mm.
The bow head is hump-like. The bow head and bow is decorated with a central vertical ridge with fine horizontal grooves across it.
The bow is oval shaped in cross section which tapers to a blunt point. The bow is incomplete, and the blunt point is not the original terminal. This point is not a recent break. The reverse of the bow has a vertical ridge starting at the mid point of the bow which devlops into the catchplate. However the catchplate is missing as the lower portion of the bow is missing.
The majority of the surface of the brooch is covered with a well developed green/brown coloured patina.
The total length of the brooch is 26.1mm.
The brooch is Roman, which could be narrowed to mid-late first century.
Parallels can be found in Hatatt, particularly No. 25 in Ancient and Romano-Bristish Brooches where the shape and decoration of the brooch is very similar. | 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: | 50
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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