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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps each have a small central hole which holds the copper alloy axis bar in place. Around the axis bar the incomplete copper alloy spring is wound. Five coils remain, and originally there may have been one more and the pin. However the pin is now missing. There is a small down-turned hook, which is integral to the centre of the wings and bow head edge. This hook holds the horizontal bar of 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 high-relief ?V? that then tapers down the bow. Either side of this ridge on the bow there is an inlaid design which is formed by a column of curvaceous ?3s? and ?Es?. The inlay is probably neillo. The bow gradually tapers to bow foot which is slightly bulbous and is oval in section. The reverse of the lower portion of the bow has a solid catch plate. The surface of the brooch has a light green well developed patina. The brooch is in a fair condition, but incomplete. The brooch measures 17.64mm across the wings and 45.35mm long. It weighs 10.1g.
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: | 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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