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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal, however both caps are fragmentary. The edges and surfaces of the wings are abraded. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is slightly hump-like with a groove which is along the upper wing edge. Only a small portion of the bow remains and this is oval in section and undecorated. The break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete light green patina. It measures 14.5mm long, 38.07mm wide across the wings and weighs 4.7g. The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 75 to 175 AD (Worrell unpublished). Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands.
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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