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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing caps at each terminal. The wing caps support a copper alloy axis bar around which the spring is coiled 6 times, with two coils missing. The pin extends from the centre of the coil and is curled upwards at the tip, forming a 'U' shape in profile. The chord is incomplete also. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and has a small hook at the upper edge of the bow head and wings to hold the chord in place. The bow head is decorated with a double stranded low relief 'Y' which continues down the bow. At the approximate mid point of the bow there is a slight stepped narrowing in depth as the bow gradually tapers in width. The lower portion of the bow is missing, and the break is recent. The reverse of the bow has the upper portion of the catchplate. The surface of the brooch has an abraded green/brown patina. It measures 35.61mm long, 21.11mm wide and weighs 12.9g.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.
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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