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Description: | A damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy Late Iron age to early Roman Colchester (one-piece) brooch. The head of the brooch has both wings intact; they are plain and short with rounded ends. The do not cover the whole of the coiled spring mechanism, which has three coils surviving to each side, and the chord above; the pin is missing. The iron axis bar is corroded within the spring mechanism with a gap where the pin was. The chord is held in place by a pointed rearward hook. The bow curves in a smooth arc and narrows to a rounded point at the terminal. It is broadly circular in cross-section. The catch-plate is heavily abraded with perforations that suggest openwork. Its web extends for 27.9mm up the lower surface of the leg. This brooch has corroded to a red-brown colour with small patches of light-green corrosion product at the head. The foot has been bent to one side as a result of old damage.
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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