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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy Polden Hill type brooch, incomplete, lower part of bow broken off; 2nd half of 1st century AD. The spring is held within the semi-cylindrical wings on an ?iron axis bar which is held by a pierced circular plate at the tip of each wing; the missing chord would have been held by the backward facing hook at the head of the bow; there is iron staining on the surface of the spring; the pin is broken off. The short wings are undecorated. There is an ovoid moulding on either side of the top of the bow, which arches sharply; the bow is decorated with three central longitudinal raised ridges (the centre one knurled and the outer two plain), with a line of pellets down either side. The lower half of the tapering bow is broken off. On the reverse the catchplate extends up to the top of the bow. Traces of tinning/silvering on the obverse. Mid grey-green patina. Length (broken) 35.53mm, width across wings 26.16mm, width at top of bow 13.60mm, thickness 18.73mm, weight 15.91g. | 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
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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