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Description: | Brooch, probably Polden Hill
Roman 50-200
17mm long, 16mm wide, 4mm thick
Wing with a semicircular concave cross-section on either side of the head. There is the slight remains of a lug on the terminal of each of the wings, both have had a hole in the centre for the spring support bar.
The head sits slightly above and the bow, there is the remains of a hook on the back of the head that would have supported the spring. The bow narrows from the head, down it length, however most of the leg of the bow is now missing, together with the catch plate.
The patina of the artefact is light green and very heavily pitted where the whole of the original surface has corroded away. As mentioned above most of the leg, the lugs for the spring support bar and the hook on the top of the head have all been very heavily corroded, on the whole, the artefact is in very poor condition.
Similar examples have been found at Frocester (35-37, 2000, Price) and would date to the late 1st century into the 2nd century. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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