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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with incomplete perforated wing caps. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and has an integral hook at the top with the junction of the wings. The bow head is decorated with a high relief rectangular strip which travels down the bow, stopping above the mid point of the bow. The bow is semi-circular in section, and gradually tapers to a blunt foot. The solid catchplate is incomplete. The surface of the brooch has a mid green patina showing through the soil covered surface. It measures 44.49mm long, 17.01mm wide across the wings and weighs 5g.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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