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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy Polden Hill type brooch, AD75-175. Unusually large and well decorated. The hinged pin is missing; it would have been held on the copper alloy axis bar encased within the cylindrical wings; one of the wings is damaged exposing the axis bar which is broken in the middle where the pin would have hinged. The wings are each decorated with a pair of gently curving diagonal lines running from the lower inner corner to the upper outer corner, and a pair of lines curving from the top of the head to the base of the head; damaged plate at the end of each wing. There is a plate on either side of the head. The bow appears to be undecorated except for a low ridge extending from the top of the head c. a sixth of the way down the bow; the lower half of the bow is corroded. The tip of the tapering foot is broken off. The openwork catchplate is damaged, incomplete and bent; it extend c. two thirds of the way up the bow. Fine blue-green patina with some areas of pitting/corrosion. Length 73.3mm, width of wings 51.4mm, width at top of head 14.3mm, max thickness of bow (at top) 11.6mm, weight 42.29g.
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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