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Description: | The object is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch of Polden Hill type. The brooch is made from cast copper alloy and is incomplete.
In plan the brooch has short semi-cylindrical wings with the caps on each end. The wings and the caps are both damaged and incomplete (not recent breaks). A slight groove in one of the cap?s, indicates where one of the holes used for supporting the axis bar would have been. The wings are undecorated. The axis bar, the spring and the pin are now missing
The bow head is humped and is flanked on either side by slightly protruding appendages. The appendages are heavily abraded. In the centre of the hump, at the junction of the wings are the remains of an incomplete backward facing lug or hook. The bow of the brooch is sub-circular in cross-section. It is possible that the bow may once have been decorated. Pitting to the surface and heavy abrasion however, means that any decoration is now indistinct. The bow is broken above the catchplate (not recent breaks). Both the catchplate and the foot of the brooch are missing.
The brooch is heavily abraded and in a poor condition. It is light green-grey in colour. The width of the brooch across the wings is 20.0mm; the length from the wings to the base of the bow is 37.2mm. The thickness of the head is 13.4 and its weight is 11.79g. | 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
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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