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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical and terminate with a perforated wing cap, of which one is incomplete. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile, and has a small hook at the centre of the upper edge of the wings. The bow head is decorated with a central vertical 'V' shaped groove with more fine obliquely angled grooves either side. This decoration travels down the bow. The bow is broken just after the bow head and the break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has a dark green colour. It measures 16.78mm long, 13.97mm wide across the wings and weighs 2.5g.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 and narrows the dating to AD 80 to 120.
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