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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, retaining only vestiges of 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 curved 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. 2.3mm while that on the left has been broken to a length of only 1.5mm. The head forms an angle of around 100 degrees to the bow. The flat bow is trapezoidal in cross-section. It curves in a shallow arc towards the catchplate end. As it does so, it tapers from a maximum width of c. 4.6mm to less than 1.3mm at the foot. It features a pair of longitudinal grooves which taper towards each other down the bow's length forming a medial ridge. Over the grooves are neat transverse nicks, presumably applied to catch the light. When looking at the brooch in plan one can see that the leg has been bent to the right. The solid catchplate has survived very well. It travels up the bow for c. 13.5mm. The curved part which would have held the pin is c. 8.2mm 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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