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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. 25 and 374 in Hattat has a similar shape. It has been made from cast copper alloy.
The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The wing caps are incomplete, therefore the axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. There is usually a small hook at the centre of the wings, but this has broken off.
The bow head is hump-like. It is decorated with a vertical high-relief strip which has horizontal ribbing. This decoration continues down the bow and tapers at the apex of the bow.
The bow is oval in section. The lower portion of the bow is undecorated and tapers to a blunt point. The surface of the brooch has a grey/green coloured patina. The lower portion of the bow is slightly bent to one side.
On the reverse of the bow, there is a complete catch-plate which is decorated with sub-triangular openwork.
The brooch measures 62.5mm long, 23.8mm wide and weighs 9.78g. | 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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