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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Polden Hill type. Hattat dates these types of brooches to the 1st century. No. 905 in Hattat Brooches in Antiquity has a similar shape in profile. It has been made from cast copper alloy.
The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar. Around the axis bar the spring is coiled. Six coils make up the spring, which also forms a horizontal bar. The bar is held in place by a small hook at the centre of the wings. The pin is missing. The wings are undecorated.
The bow head is hump-like. The upper head of the bow head is slightly angular. The bow head is decorated with an elongated triangular cell which tapers towards the apex of the bow.
The bow is oval in section. The triangular cell of the bow head continues down the upper portion of the bow. At the apex of the bow the triangular cell tapers out, and there is a high relief ? V? shape formed of two leaf shapes. The lower portion of the bow is undecorated and tapers to a blunt point.
On the reverse of the bow, on the lower portion there is an abraded edge, which is where the catchplate would have originally been. The patina does cover some of this abraded edge, suggesting that it did not break off recently.
The surface of the brooch has a grey/green coloured patina.
The brooch measures 37.3mm long, 16.9mm wide and weighs 8.01g. | 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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