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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with perforated wing caps. The outer facing edges of the wing caps are decorated with a pair of transverse grooves. At the junction of the wings and bow head there is an integral perforated lug. There is a copper alloy axis bar within the wings which has the spring coiled around it six times with the chord leading off the exterior coils. The chord passes through the perforated lug. The pin is complete. The bowhead is slightly hump-like in profile and decorated with an elongated triangular platform which tapers in depth down the bow. The bow is sub semi-circular in section, and gradually tapers to a slightly blunt foot. The bow is bent at right-angles at the approximate mid point. The pin continues to be straight and is not bent in line with the bow. The catchplate is complete and has a triangular openwork as decoration. The catch of the catchplate is decorated on the exterior with oblique grooves. The surface of the brooch has a well developed light grey/green patina with patches of a white metal alloy coating. It measures 47.49mm long from the bow head to the pin terminal, 19.11mm wide across the wings and weighs 11.1g.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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