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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical, which terminate with perforated wing caps. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is slightly angular. It is sub semi-circular in section and has a rectangular cell which continues down the bow. and gradually tapers no nothing near the foot. The bow tapers and terminates at a blunt point. On the reverse of the bow there are traces of a catchplate remains. The surface of the brooch has traces of a dark green grey patina otherwise it is encrusted with soil. It measures 53.93mm long, 16.98mm wide across the wings and weighs 7.7g.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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