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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative, Polden Hill style, brooch of Roman date (75-175 AD). The wings are complete and semi-cylindrical in plan with closed pierced end caps. The axis bar, spring and pin are lost. At the junction of the bow and wings, on the upper edge is a rearward facing hook. This hook would have held an external chord from the spring. The bow head is hump-like, and angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow is D shaped in cross section. It extends to a broken blunted pointed foot. The catch-plate is lost; the remnants extend from a small rib which commences at the mid point of the bow. The brooch is decorated with a series of simple cast designs which are limited to the head and bow. Here tow vertical ribs - positioned either side of the hook conjoin to form a single rib that extends down the spine of the brooch; this rib is decorated with a series of diagonal slashes. At the junction between the wings and bow two undecorated wedge shaped panels are positioned. The brooch is a mid brown colour with an even but abraded patina. Similar brooches can be seen in Richard Hattatt's Visual Guide to Ancient Brooches and Bayley and Butcher: Roman Brooches in BritainThe brooch measures 30.4mm length, is 18.5mm width across wings, 6.8mm width across bow, is 4.8mm thick across the bow (at the same point). It weighs 8.07 grams.
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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