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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical and terminate with a perforated wing cap. The axis bar has the spring coiled around it, and both are made of iron. The number of coils around the axis bar are difficult to count due to the corrosion. The pin is missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is slightly hump-like in profile, and is semi-circular in section. The bow head is undecorated. The bow is broken just below the wings, but it is probably a recent break. The surface of the brooch has a pitted corroded surface. It measures 15.94mm long, 18.69mm wide across the wings and weighs 4.4g.The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which 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. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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