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Description: | Cast copper-alloy Polden Hill brooch. Roman period (AD75-175). Incomplete. Mass: 5.3g; length: 31.4mm; width: 15.1mm; depth: 12.4mm. The brooch has lost one side wing, but would have been T-shaped in plan. It has a humped, comma shaped profile. The surface is heavily corroded, but there is a moulded "plate" visible on one side of the head, adjoining the extant semi-cylindrical wing. There is the trace of a hook or lug on the top of the head, which would have secured the external chord which is missing. The spring and pin are also missing. The extant wing has an incomplete end-cap. The bow has a sub-oval, almost D shaped cross-section. The surface of the brooch is brown/green and heavily pitted. Bayley and Butcher (ibid. p159) explain that the Polden Hill type of brooch, "...exhibits a distinctive method of attaching the spring: it is carried in a semi-cylindrical crossbar which has closed ends to secure the axial rod, while the chord is held by a hook or crest on the head." In her "Roman Brooch Timeline", Worrell (2007) dates Polden Hill brooches to AD75-175. Bayley and Butcher (ibid. p 160) state that the main development of this type appears to have taken place in the West Midlands and that more recent finds have confirmed a concentration in this region.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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