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Description: | An incomplete Roman (AD 75 - 175) copper alloy Polden Hill variant type brooch, missing the spring mechanism, one pierced lug and the pin. It is now rather squashed. The brooch measures 68.73mm in length and weighs 7.2g. The incomplete wingspan is 37.01mm. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section but now squashed almost flat. The surviving pierced lug (which is D-shaped) has also been squashed to extend to one side of the wing in a continuous line. To the front the wings are decorated either side of the bow with three pairs of ribs, a further rib inside each pair being decorated with tiny transverse grooves.The bow extends from the top of the wings and is oval in cross-section, measuring 5.15x6.59mm. It has no decoration but extends into the large triangular openwork catchplate, rather like a Colchester brooch. This would have originally had a bar crossing the triangular openwork (only stumps of this now survive).
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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