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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are missing, and the bow head is hump-like in profile. Where the wings are missing the edges are abraded, but these are not recent breaks. The reverse of the bow head is concave and is filled with a black ceramic like substance. The axis bar, spring and pin are also missing. The bow head is decorated with a central vertical 'V' shaped groove with a high-relief moulding at each terminal. The groove travels down the bow but becomes feint. #the bow tapers to a blunt point which is probably a broken terminal as there are no traces of a catchplate on the reverse. The surface of the brooch has a mid-dark green colour and is abraded. It measures 24.44mm long, 9.35mm wide across the bow head and weighs 3.8g.The brooch is possibly 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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