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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Polden Hill type. It has been made from cast copper alloy. Polden Hill type brooches date to the first century. Hattatt illustrates a similar brooch in Brooches of Antiquity, No. 898.
The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with wing caps. However, one wing is missing and has left a broken edge, which is not recent. The wing caps would have supported an axis bar, around which the spring was coiled, but these are missing, as is the pin.
The bow head is hump-like and is undecorated. At the junction of the bow head and wings there is an incomplete small hook protruding over the wings. The bow is oval in section, however, only a small portion of the bow remains.
The brooch has a patchy dark green coloured patina. It weighs 15.24g, and measures 23.2mm wide and 22.7mm 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: | 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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