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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. 898 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. Nine 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. Only a small portion of the pin remains. The wings are undecorated.
The bow head is hump-like and undecorated.
The bow is semi-circular in section and is undecorated. It gradually tapers to a blunt point, which may not be the original terminal.
On the reverse of the bow, there is an abraded vertical edge, which would have developed into a catchplate, which is now missing.
The surface of the brooch has patches of a brown/green coloured patina.
The brooch measures 39.6mm long, 20.3mm wide and weighs 13.71g. | 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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