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Description: | The object is an incomplete Colchester Two-Piece derivative brooch of Polden Hill type, dated to the 1st century AD or Roman period. Hattatt (see Hattatt, R 1987. Brooches of Antiquity. Oxbow: Oxford) illustrates a very similar type of brooch (see fig.900), unlike the illustration however, the recorded example is slightly shorter and a little different in its decoration. The object is made of cast copper alloy.
The brooch is hollow and has an incomplete head with the stump of a hooked chord at the top. The wings are mostly complete and have caps on each end; the caps however are both incomplete (not recent breaks) with only slight grooves in the caps showing where the holes for the axis bar would have been. The brooch is decorated with small raised appendages on each side of the head and a knurled rib along the upper part of the bow. (Hattatt 1987, p.98 see fig. 900). At the base of the rib and at the junction with the leg is a single knob approximately 2.3mm in diameter. The leg of the brooch is longer than the bow, and is plain except for a small foot knob (Hattatt 1987, 98). The spring and pin are both missing on the brooch. The back of the brooch is undecorated and only part of the catch plate now remains. The brooch is in a worn but fair condition with a dark green patina. Pitting in the patina is evident on the front of the bow.
The object is 51.7mm long and 16.5mm wide across the wings. The thickness at the head is 10.7mm and the weight is 9.90g. | 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
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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