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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical but one is missing and the other is heavily abraded. The remaining wing has an incomplete perforated wing cap. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and the bow is missing due to a break at the bow head. The break is not too recent. The bow head is undecorated. The surface of the brooch has a matte dark grey patina. It measures 26.47mm long, 15.78mm wide across the wings and weighs 5.6g.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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