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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are missing, but were semi-cylindrical. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. In the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is an integral hook which originally would have supported the chord. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is semi-circular in section. The bow head and bow are undecorated. The bow terminaes with a bulbous foot which has a collar above it. The catchplate is almost complete and solid. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete well developed mid green patina. It measures 57.67mm long, 12.41mm wide and weighs 8.2g.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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