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Description: | A copper-alloy late Iron Age to Roman Colchester brooch. The brooch is large at 94.5 mm long and with a thickness of 6.6 mm, tapering to 2.8 at the foot with a very straight bow (although this would originally have curved more before deposition). The brooch has the familiar backwards facing lug of the Colchester type and the remains of one turn of the copper-alloy spring. The pin is broken and missing. The brooch's wings are asymmetrical, although this appears to be a result of one of the wings having been bent in towards the head. The brooch has the remains of a large catch plate, which although broken appears to have at least one large perforation. The obverse of the bow is decorated with fairly crude punched circular decoration from shortly behind the lug right down to the foot. Although the decoration on this brooch is unusual the general shape and pin mechanism is indicative that it is certainly a Colchester type. Such brooches were in use in the late Iron Age to Roman period in Britain, from around 25 to 75 AD. A similar example is illustrated in Hattatt (1985, page 29; fig 249). | 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
75 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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