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Description: | The object is a brooch made from cast copper alloy. The wings of the brooch are semi-cylindrical, however, both wings are abraded and do not have their original terminals. In the centre of the wings, on the reverse there is a integral lug, which has iron corrosion around it, suggesting the axis bar was originally made of iron. The wings are undecorated. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. At the junction of the bow head and upper edge of the wings, there is a small central, ?U? shaped groove which may have been an integral loop originally, which would have held the spring in place. The bow head is hump-like and is triangular in section. The bow head is decorated with a central vertical ridge. The bow is broken just below the bow head. This break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has a dark brown patina. The brooch measures 15.85mm long from the upper hook to the bow break, and 24.04mm wide across the wings. It weighs 5.2g.
The object is a Colchester Two-Piece Brooch, which dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD. | 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: | 200 | 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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