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Description: | A small, incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester brooch dating to the late Iron Age to early Roman period, c. 25-65 AD. A one-piece example, lacking its small rearward facing hook at the top of the head. This hook would have held the external chord of the spring; this latter, along with the pin, broken just below the head such that a vestige remains, is now missing. Below the head and perpendicular to it, are two vestigial flat wings: when looking at the brooch in plan, the one on the right extends for c. 4mm while that on the left has been broken to a length of only 2.9mm. The longer features a pair of transverse grooves in decoration. The bow is flat and in cross-section has the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners. The majority of the bow is angled at around 100 degrees to the element that forms that head. It curves in a very shallow arc towards the catchplate end. As it travels towards the catchplate end the bow tapers from a maximum width of c. 5.4mm to less than 3mm at the foot. The head element features a deeply incised scar, 8.1mm in length, presuambly the point at which the hook would have been attached. The grooved decorative theme seen on the wings continues in the bow which features a pair of longitudinal grooves which travel towards each other forming a raised medial ridge. The solid catchplate has survived very well. It travels up the bow for c. 14.6mm. The curved part which would have held the pin is c. 10.5mm long and has suffered few abrasions. | 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: | 25
65 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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