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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British, two piece ?Colchester? type brooch. The wings of this brooch are complete and semicylindrical. Their original surface is mostly missing, but where it is fragmentary it is possible to see that the wings were decorated with vertical incised lines. Behind the head is a lug with two perforations, the upper part of the lug being broken at the point of the upper perforation. The wings still hold one half of the separate spring coil, which has four coils surviving (therefore presumably eight when complete). The exterior chord passes along the top of the coils, through the top perforation on the lug and partially continues along the other side. The rest of the spring coil and the pin shaft are entirely missing. At the head of the brooch is a pronounced crest that runs onto the bow for 19.94mm. The bow is complete, triangular in section and does not taper, ending in a broad, rounded point. It is decorated from the point of the end of the crest with a central, raised rib. The curled catchplate is complete and has a circular perforation flanked by a triangular perforation to top and bottom. The object is abraded. Where the original surface survives, it is an even dark green, where it has been damaged it is light green. It is 60.72mm long, 32.26mm wide across the wings, 8.24mm wide across the bow and weighs 14.75g. This type of brooch dates from 50-70AD, A smaller example can be seen in Crummy 1983, figure 6, number 52. | 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
70 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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