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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Colchester derivative (Polden Hill) brooch of Roman date (75-175AD). A wing, the pin, foot and catchplate are missing. In plan, the brooch is T-shaped, and semi-circular in cross section. The bow head is humped and angular in profile, with cylindrical wings projecting from either side at the top terminating in end caps with a circular perforation for the axis bar which is missing. The left wing is incomplete. The right wing is decorated with three veritcal ridges and two grooves located evenly between the bow and the end cap, one the left wing only one ridge is visible before the old break. The bow projects out of the head at a ninety degree angle before running down to the foot which is now missing. An incomplete hook pointing forwards would have held part of the spring. A vertical ridge runs along the bow from the hook to the old break, where the bow tapers towards the foot which is lost. The spring is missing but would have been coiled in the recess behind the head. The reverse is broadly flat and undecorated.The brooch measures 26.55mm length, is 19.3mm wide across wings and 10.45mm thick. It weighs 6.2 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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