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Description: | A small cast copper-alloy Colchester-derivative Roman brooch. This example is incomplete, with the pin, pin-bar, spring, and elements of the wings and catchplate now missing. It is probably a Colchester type two-piece example given the doubly perforated lug on the brooch head, its profile, and the slightness of the wings. Overall the brooch is 32.0mm in length, while the bow rises to 15.5mm in maximum height. The catchplate is 4.9mm in length and has been considerably abraded. The catchplate is seemingly solid, that is it lacks decorative perforations. The bow is sub-oval in section with a flat reverse. In profile the brooch looks harp-shaped, that is, the arch of the bow is not continuous down to the foot. The head of the brooch is flat and is perpendicular with the former line of the pin. Within the upper lug perforation there are remains of the spring chord. The wings are set back from the head terminal and are slightly plano-convex in profile, being flat on the reverse. If looking at the brooch with the foot nearest, the left wing has been broken to a length of 4.7mm while the right wing extends to 6.6mm, and is bent downwards at its terminal. Dark green patina and relatively undecorated, excepting two incised transverse lines on the right wing (there is only one on what survives of the left wing). 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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