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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Trumpet type. It has been made from cast copper alloy. Trumpet type brooches date to the mid first to second century. Hattatt illustrates a similar brooch in Ancient Romano-British Brooches, No. 83.
The bow head and wings are incorporated together. In plan the bow head is a horizontal oval shape in plan. On the reverse There is a sub oval shaped conical. Either side of this void there is a semi-circular lug with a circular hole in the centre. The spring, axis bar and pin are all missing. Protruding from the upper edge of the bow head there is a sub-trapezoidal shape whose upper edge is a broken edge. This was likely to have been a loop originally. The bow protrudes from the centre of the bow head and quickly tapers until it has a broken edge, therefore only a small portion of the bow remains. The bow is an oval shape in section.
The brooch has a well developed mid green coloured patina. It weighs 9.07g, and measures 25.5mm wide and 24.3mm long. | 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 | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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