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Description: | A Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch made of cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps each have a small central hole, of which one is incomplete, which supports an iron axis bar. Around the axis bar the spring is coiled, there are 6 coils including the external coils which lead to form a horizontal bar above the spring. The remains of an integral loop integral to the bow head holds this bar in place. Only half of the bar remains now. The pin is broken and missing. The bow head is an inverted ?L? shape in profile, and in section is rectangular. Only a fragment of the bow remains, and this is decorated with two vertical low-relief panels. The surface of the brooch has traces of a grey/green patina. The brooch is otherwise in a fair condition, but is only a fragment. The brooch measures 19.88mm across the wings and 19.09mm long. It weighs 5.1g.
The brooch is probably a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to the mid 1st century into the 2nd (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries). Bayley and Butcher go on to comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches is most dense in the West Midlands. | 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
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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