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Description: | A Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch made of cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical with incomplete wing caps. The caps each have a small central hole which originally would have supported the axis bar. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. There is a small loop, 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 slightly hump-like in profile and is sub-triangular in plan. The bow head is decorated with a single vertical, central ridge, and a fine groove bordering the edges. This portion of the bow head is sub-triangular in section. The bow rapidly tapers to a broken terminal. The break is not recent. Due to the break the bow foot and catch plate are also missing. The surface of the brooch has an abraded mid green patina. The brooch is otherwise in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 24.16mm across the wings and 31.33mm long. It weighs 6.9g.
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. Hattatt illustrates a similar brooch, No. 901 (Hattatt, R., 1987 Brooches of Antiquity) which is described as a Polden Hill variant. | 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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