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Description: | A cast copper Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps have a small central hole which originally held the axis bar in place. One cap is incomplete and therefore the hole just forms a ?C? shaped profile. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. The exterior of the wings are decorated with a two pairs of transverse grooves on each wing. There is a small lug with a central hole, 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 has an inverted ?L? shape profile, and in section is an elongated semi-circle. The bow head is decorated, as is the bow with a central vertical ridge which leads from the integral lug down the bow. The ridge gradually tapers. The upper portion of the bow is an inverted sub triangle in plan, which quickly tapers at the tip to continue as a narrowed lower portion of the bow. The bow is incomplete as it is broken. The break is probably recent as the surface of the break does not match the surface of the brooch. The surface of the brooch has a mottled black/dark green patina. The black areas maybe a form of coating. The brooch is in a poor condition, and is incomplete. The brooch measures 28.89mm across the wings and 30.62mm long. It weighs 4.3g.
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. Hattat (Hattat, R. 1987 Brooches of Antiquity Oxbow) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 901. | 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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