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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. 899.
The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with wing caps. The wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar, around which the spring is coiled. The pin is missing. The exterior of the wings are decorated with vertical wide ribbing.
The bow head is hump-like and is undecorated. At the junction of the bow head and wings there is an incomplete loop which holds in place a fragment of wire from the spring. The bow is oval in section, however, only a small portion of the bow remains.
The brooch has a patchy dark brown/green coloured patina. It weighs 8.19g, and measures 24.4mm wide and 25.6mm 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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