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Description: | Cast copper alloy Polden hill brooch length 41mm, width 33mm, thickness 12mm, weight 30.98g. Semicircular, concave cross section wings with expanded terminals, there is a backward facing lug at either end, a hole in the centre of each of the lugs holds the pin support bar, the spring is still in place with sixteen curls, the pin is missing. On the top of the head is a crest that would have held a backward facing loop that held an external cord of the spring, this cord is missing. Stepped shoulders flank either side of the head although these are heavily corroded. The head and the whole of the leg are plan although these are heavily corroded. The lower section of the leg is missing, this is an old break, as a result that catch plate is missing. The catch plat on the reverse of the leg is missing, there is a slight crest on the back of the leg that runs from the head down the remaining length, but this would be the remains of the casting flash.
The artefact is a very poor condition with corrosion stripping most of the original surface. These are dated to 80-120AD. | 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: | 80
120 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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