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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 undecorated, but on the outer surface of one wing there is a fragment of iron adhered to it. The bow head is hump-like in profile and decorated with two parallel vertical grooves. The central ridge between the grooves is decorated with fine notches. The bow tapers slightly to a blunt point which is a broken terminal below the probable mid point. This break is not recent. The decoration of the bow head continues down the bow until the approxmiate mid point which the surface of the bow is slightly off-set with a triangular point. The bow is semi-circular in section. Only a fragment of the catchplate remains before it is broken. The surface of the brooch is has an incomplete well developed shiny blue/green patina. It measures 30.29mm long, 18.63mm wide across the wings and weighs 4.9g.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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