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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester-derivative brooch. This example is incomplete, with the pin, pin-bar, the majority of the wings and the majority of the spring now missing. It is probably a Colchester type two-piece example given the doubly perforated lug on the brooch head and the slightness of the wings. Overall the brooch is 47.4mm in length, while the bow rises to 18.6mm in maximum height. The catchplate is 16.3mm in length and has been abraded. The catchplate is solid, that is it lacks decorative perforations. The bow is sub-oval in section and terminates at the head-end in a small crest reminiscent of the small hooks found on Colchester one-piece brooches. The wings are flat in profile and only now extend for approximately 4.3mm either side of the head. They would perhaps have once each been around 7.4mm in length, a length which would have covered the extant spring. If looking at the brooch in plan with the catchplate end closest, the spring has only really survived on the left-hand side; on the right only a small fragment of a couple of millimetres appears through the perforation. On the left-hand side only one-and-a-half coils survive. Roman, 1st century AD in date. | 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
80 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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