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Description: | A late Iron Age to early Roman brooch copper-alloy Colchester brooch of 1st century date (c. AD 25-60). The brooch has a very narrow and tapering bow which widens slightly at the head with a suggestion of vestigial wings. The metal splits behind the wings, seemingly to form an upper loop to hold the spring cord and a lower wire to coil into the actual spring. However, both these functions are uncertain as the brooch is broken just beyond the split. There is no trace of catchplate and no extant decoration. The brooch is 39.9mm long, 8.8mm thick, the wings are 5.4mm wide and it weighs 1.10g.Ref: Hattatt 'A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches' (pp. 296, fig. 155)
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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