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Description: | A cast copper alloy Colchester Two-Piece brooch. The bow head and wings are incorporated together and in plan the bow head is a horizontal oval. On the reverse there is a rectangular shaped cell bordered on the sides by an integral semi-circular lug. Each lug has a central hole through which an iron axis bar is situated. The bar is corroded. Around the bar there is the remains of a spring, there are four coils to the spring and the five coils becoming the pin. The pin is missing. The upper edge of the bow head has an integral sub-rectangular protrusion with a crescentic shaped broken upper edge. Originally this protrusion would have been an integral loop. The bow quickly narrows beneath the bow head. The bow is an oval in section and only a short portion remains before it is broken. The break is not recent as the patina covers the break and matches the surface of the brooch. The brooch has a well developed light green coloured patina. It weighs 5.5g, and measures 14.22mm wide and 28.37mm long.
The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Trumpet-headed type. Trumpet brooches date to the 1st to 2nd century (Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160-164). | 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: | 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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