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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British ?Colchester? two piece brooch. The wings on this brooch are truncated and semicylindrical. Behind the head is a lug with two circular perforations that would have held the spring chord. These are now blocked with corrosion product. The spring and pin are entirely missing. There is a pronounced crest running from the head onto the bow, flanked either side by a raised line that diminishes before reaching the foot. The bow is triangular in section. The bow tapers towards the foot which appears to end complete without a foot knob. The curled catchplate is entirely missing. The patina of the object is mid brown. All breaks are worn smooth and similarly patinated suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch is 29.68mm long, 14.88mm wide across the remains of the wings, 6.68mm wide across the bow, 4.46mm thick and weighs 3.13g. Brooches of this type date from between 50-70AD. A similar example can be seen in Hattatt 1985, figure 12, number 258. | 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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