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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal, which are now incomplete. The axis bar, spring and pin are 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 triple stranded vertical ridges. The bow terminaes with a slightly 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 green/brown patina. It measures 46.07mm long, 18.68mm wide and weighs 7.2g.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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