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Description: | The object Colchester Two-Piece Brooch, a Polden Hill type dating to the 1st century. Hattatt in Ancient Romano-British Brooches illustrates a similar brooch, No. 26.
The wings of the brooch are semi-cylindrical, which terminate with wing caps. Within the wings there is a light green ceramic or paste. The wing caps are incomplete, but the hole in each to support the axis bar is visible. The wing terminals are expanded in diameter as decoration. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. The bow head is slightly hump like and is decorated with a central pair of vertical ridges which continue and tapers down the bow. The bow is semi-circular in section, with a ridge on the reverse which leads to the catchplate. The bow tapers to a bulbous terminal. The catch plate is triangular with triangular openwork in the centre. The surface of the brooch has traces of a well developed green coloured patina, otherwise the surface is a brown matte surface.
The brooch measures 55.67mm long from the bow head to the foot, and 22.76mm wide across the wings. It weighs 11.4g. | 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: | 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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