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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Colchester Two Piece Polden Hill brooch, dating to the 1st/ 2nd century, between AD 43 ? 200 (length: 59mm; width at wings: 19mm; thickness/ depth: 17mm; weight: 13.4g). This Polden Hill brooch can be classified as a Group ?b?: ?Heavier brooches, usually large; the upper bow humped forward over the crossbar; the effect often increased by a slight lateral extension showing as disc-shaped flanges beside it. The tapering lower bow is usually plain but the upper half can have a range of cut or moulded decoration, sometimes enamelled. A few have footknobs, some have cutouts in the catchplate?, as discussed by Bayley & Butcher (2004; page 91) (see bibliographical details below). At the top of the brooch, there are the stumped remains of the rearward-facing hook, which would have originally held the chord above the spring, which is still in place. The wings to either side of the head are short and cylindrical in section (length to either side: 4mm; diameter: 7mm). Both of the wings have enlarged caps/ discs at either terminal (one of these is incomplete) to hold the axis bar and spring in place. The upper bow or head is humped over the wings slightly with crescent-shaped appendages to either side of the head, which also encase around the wings. The caps on the wings? terminals and the appendages are both common characteristics of Polden Hill brooches. The bow is plain with a ?D?-shaped side section, which tapers in width from 10mm at the top of the bow to 3mm at the bottom above the rounded and collared footknob (which has corroded badly in places). At the back of the brooch, and as mentioned before, there is a cast copper chord above and integral to the main part of the spring mechanism where six complete turns are still visible. There is one incomplete turn, which would have originally continued to form the pin (now missing). At the bottom of the back of the brooch, most of the cast copper alloy catchplate remains (visible length: 19.5mm; width: 5mm; thickness: 1mm), although the curved outside edge to enclose the pin is now missing due to breaks and corrosion. Overall, the brooch is in a slightly worn but fair condition with a dark green patina. Similar examples of Group ?b? Polden Hill brooches are illustrated in Bayley, J & Butcher, S, 2004, ?Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection?, pages 91-2, fig 72, particularly ref nos 211 & 214. | 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: | 43
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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