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Description: | Very well preserved copper alloy polden hill brooch. The brooch has semi-cylindrical wings in cross-section with fully rounded terminals. The wing faces are each decorated with three large moulded reels containing two smaller ones between, imitating the spring that the wings hide. The spring is copper alloy and is thread above through an integral rearward perforated lug. This lug carries on over the head of the bow as a slight ridge imitating the forward facing hook that preceeded this brooch type. The spring has fifteen turns. The pin is missing. There is no lower perforation to the spring lug as is commonly found in two-piece colchester brooches. Instead the copper alloy axis bar passes through the spring and pierces the full-rounded wing terminals. The bow is comma shaped, oval in cross-section and tapers to a slightly collared bulbous foot. The catchplate is openwork, consisting of two roughly triangular sections. | 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: | 43
80 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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