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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical but are incomplete and abraded. One wing has an incomplete perforated wing cap, the other is missing. 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 undecorated. 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 slightly abraded and has a mid green/grey patina. It measures 28.39mm long, 14.69mm wide across the wings and weighs 3.4g.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.
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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