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Description: | The object Colchester Two-Piece Brooch, a Polden Hill type dating to the 1st century. Hattatt in Brooches of Antiquity illustrates a similar brooch, No. 900.
The wings of the brooch are semi-cylindrical, which terminate with wing caps. The wings? terminals are decorated with fine vertical ribbing. The wing caps have a central hole that would have supported an axis bar, There is iron staining around these holes suggesting the axis was made of iron. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. The bow head is hump like and slightly angular. It is decorated with three central vertical ridges which continue down the bow. The bow is semi-circular in section. Only a short portion of the bow remains, before there is a break. The break is not recent.
The surface of the brooch has a shiny dark green patina. It measures 28.7mm long, 26.4mm wide. It weighs 12.71g. | 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: | 1
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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