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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal. Through the perforations there is a copper alloy axis bar. Around the axis bar, the spring is coiled 15 times. The exterior coils then go on to form the horizontal chord. The pin is missing. The wings are decorated with vertical grooves and ridges. In the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is an perforated lug which supports the chord. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is oval in section. The upper portion of the bow is decorated with a low-relief 'V' which has a vertical linear groove in as well. The lower portion of the bow is undecorated nd the foot is broken off, and the catchplate is incomplete. The break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete, pitted dark grey patina. It measures 44.88mm long, 33.73mm wide and weighs 18.1g.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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