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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with abraded wing caps. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. In the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is an integral hook which would have supported the spring chord. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is semi-circular in section. The bow head andf bow are undecorated. The bow tapers to a blunt point. The catchplate is missing. The surface of the brooch has traces of a well developed thick brown patina, otherwise the surface is abraded. It measures 48.94mm long, 24.44mm wide across the wings and weighs 16.3g. The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 75 to 175 AD (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter). Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands.
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