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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 which has fragments of the iron axis bar in each. The majority of the axis bar, the spring and pin are missing. There is a small down-turned hook, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. Originally this would have held the spring in place. The bow head is hump-like in profile, and in section is a semi-circle. The bow head is decorated, as is the bow with a three parallel grooves. The bow gradually tapers to a blunt, incomplete foot. The reverse of the lower portion of the bow has an incomplete solid catch plate. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete mid to dark green shiny patina. The brooch is otherwise in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 20.42mm across the wings and 47.72mm long. It weighs 12g.
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 concentrated 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: | 43
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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