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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman, two piece ?Colchester? B type brooch. The wings of the brooch are semicylindrical and complete. Behind the head of the brooch is the incomplete lug that would have had two perforations that held the spring coil in place. This is now damaged so that the perforations are split in half and open to one side. The spring and pin are entirely missing. There is a pronounced crest that runs from the head of the brooch, and continues along the length of the bow. The bow is flat, except for the crest, and is truncated. The foot and catchplate are entirely missing. The brooch is abraded with none of the original surface surviving. It now has a light green patina. It is impossible to say whether the brooch was decorated in anyway. The break are edges worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch has a surviving length of 18.28mm. It is 15.52mm wide across the wings, 6.06mm wide across the bow, 2.64mm thick at the bow and weighs 2.24g. An example can be seen in Crummy 1983, figure 6, number 52. Brooches of this type date from 50-70 AD. | 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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