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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal. The caps are incomplete. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. One wing is decorated with a circular perforation. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is oval in section and this section shape continues down the bow tapering to a blunt point. The bowhead and bow is decorated with a column of low-relief pointed oval shaped cells which are obliquely angled. The catchplate is solid and incomplete. The surface of the brooch is matte dark grey which is slightly abraded. It measures 62.25mm long, 25.65mm wide across the wings and weighs 17.4g. 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) comments that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches is concentrated in the West Midlands.
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