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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece Brooch, a Polden Hill type. It is made from cast copper alloy.
The wings are semi-cylindrical, with wing caps. The caps support a copper alloy axis bar. Around this axis bar there is an incomplete spring, only two coils remains. The pin is also missing. The wings are decorated with three parallel vertical linear grooves which are irregularly spaced.
The bow head is hump-like with a small hook in the centre at the junction with the wings. This hook then forms a central ridge down the bow head as decoration. The bow is undecorated and tapers to a broken edge. The break is not recent and it broke above the catchplate. The bow is sub-oval shaped in section.
The brooch has traces of a dark brown coloured patina.
Hattat has a similar brroch, No. 899 which has similar proportions, but slightly different decoration. This is dated to the 1st century AD.
The length of the brooch is 31.2mm and is 29.2mm across the wings. It weighs 9.01g. | 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: | 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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