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Description: | A worn and incomplete Roman Colchester brooch. It is missing the spring and pin due to old breaks, and has been bent almost in half due to post-depositional damage. The brooch has flat, rectangular wings that have double vertical ridges on their front faces. At the centre of the wings are an integrally cast hook that folds forwards onto the head of the bow and an incomplete integrally cast spring. The bow itself is flat, rectangular in section and with slightly faceted edges on the front face, tapering to a pointed foot. On the back face of the foot are the remains of a flattened and integrally cast catchplate. The entire brooch measures 25.76mm in surviving (bent) length, 6.57mm in width at bow, 16.87mm in width at wings, 2.22mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 4.03g.This is a Roman Colchester brooch with parallels noted in Hattatt (1989: nos. 250-255). It is of 1st century AD date, c.25-65 AD.
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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