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Description: | Incomplete Roman (AD 75 - 175) copper alloy Polden Hill type brooch, missing just over half the pin. It measures 63.31mm in length and weighs 13.8g.The wingspan is 18.96mm. The wings are tubular in shape but hollow and cut away to the reverse, to house the 9-coil spring. The chord passes overhead through a piercing in the top of the bow, which has been adapted for this purpose. The wings are decorated to the front with a transverse groove flanking each end, both of which are closed with circular lugs, pierced to hold the axis bar in place, as is typical of Polden Hill type brooches. The pin survives to a length of c.19mm.The bow extends from the front of the wings, measuring 7.56x4.36mm. It is D-shaped in section and to the front decorated with two converging longitudinal grooves, between which are shorter horizontal grooves, extending from the chord-lug for approx. a third of the bow length. The bow narrows, rather like a Colchester brooch, to 1.42mm wide at the foot. A large openwork catchplate extends to the reverse. Cf. Hattatt no.26.
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