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Description: | Fragment of copper ally 1st century Romano-British brooch. This fragment represents the wings and part of the bow of the brooch. The wings are virtually complete, except for minor damage to the very ends. They are semicylindrical and decorated with an incised line at each end and a pair of incised lines to either side of where the bow runs from the head of the brooch. There is no sign of a lug behind the head or of a hook of any description. Whatever the method of spring fixing, it has presumably broken in antiquity as the wings are worn smooth across where we would expect the fixing to be. The wings hold a fragment of heavily corroded material, which is presumed to be the remains of part of the spring coil. There is a pronounced crest running from the head onto the bow. The bow is triangular in section and truncated just below the crest. The fragment has a surviving length of 17.64mm, is 30.7mm wide across the wings, 8.34mm wide across the bow, 5.3mm thick and weighs 5.82g. It is possible that this is part of a Colchester two piece brooch that dates from between 50 and 70AD. Examples of this type of brooch can be seen in Hattatt 1985, figure 12. | 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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