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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with incomplete perforated wing caps. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated and has a small integral hook at the centre of the bow head and wing edge. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and the bow is fragmentary and is broken just below the wings. The break is not too recent. The bow head is decorated with a pair of fine lines forming a double-stranded 'Y'. The surface of the brooch has patches of a dark grey/green patina. It measures 27.67mm long, 25.58mm wide across the wings and weighs 14.9g.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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