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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical but are incomplete and abraded. It is not certain whether they had wing caps or not. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is semi-circular in section. The bow head and bow are decorated with a central pair of vertical grooves which gradually tapers. The bow tapers to a blunt point which is a broken terminal just below the probable mid point. This break is not recent. The catchplate is therefore missing. The surface of the brooch is abraded and has areas of a mid green/grey patina. It measures 27.53mm long, 17.22mm wide across the wings and weighs 6.1g.The brooch is probably 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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