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Description: | Incomplete Colchester two piece brooch of copper alloy. The head of the brooch is complete and a section of the spring and bow remain. The brooch is covered in a black patina. It measures 22x18mm and weighs 2.42g.
A lug with a double perforation emerges from the back of the head. Within the lower perforation is a section of the copper alloy axis bar, around which is wound three turns of the spring. Orininally there may have been eight turns. The only section of cord remaining is in the upper perforation in the lug. The arms of the cross bar are complete and curve around the spring. Where the spring is missing, wear from the turns are visible on their reverse. The bow emerges from the top of the cross bar. It is narrow, only 5mm wide, at this point. The lug protrudes above the bow, and an incised line than runs along the centre of the bow, leads from it.
The brooch is similar to Hattatt (1989) 256. Colchester brooches are most common through the middle of the 1st century AD (Bayley and Butcher 2004, pp. 148-150). | 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: | 1
75 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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