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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical, terminating with perforated wing caps. The wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar around which the spring is coiled eight times. The pin is 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 is decorated with a tapering triangular with a bordering linear notched ridge. This terminates with a 'V' shape formed by two lentoids above the mid point of the bow. The lower portion of the bow is decorated along the edges with a shallow ridge which is incomplete. The bow tapers to a blunt point. The catchplate is incomplete. The surface of the brooch has a well developed light green/grey patina. It measures 49.46mm long, 19.42mm wide across the wings and weighs 13.1g. 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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