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Description: | An incomplete late Iron Age - Roman copper-alloy Colchester brooch, dating to the 1st century AD. All that survives of the brooch is the long, slender tapering bow; stumps representing where the wings used to be and a short spike extending backwards from the reverse of the bow which would once have held the spring. The wings are very short as there are broken and worn. The bow is about 56.9mm in length. The foot of the bow is broken, so it is impossible to say how long the bow would have originally been. The catchplate has also broken off and the pin obviously does not survive. The metal is very worn and very corroded. The surface is pitted. The metal has a light reddish-brown colour. This brooch dates to the 1st century AD. This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, pp296, Fig. 155. | 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: | 25
60 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Liz Walker | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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