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Description: | A Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch made of cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps (one wing cap is incomplete). The caps each have a small central hole which would have supported the axis bar, however the axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The centre of the upper edge of the wings has an integral transverse loop which is to support a portion of the spring. The bow head is hump-like, and in section is semi-circular. The bow head is decorated with a vertical ridge which continues down the bow. The bow gradually tapers to a broken edge. The bow is broken above the catchplate, therefore there is no trace of the catchplate. The surface of the brooch has a pitted dark green patina. The brooch measures 20.33mm across the wings and 27.08mm long. It weighs 4.79g.
The brooch is 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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