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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Colchester bow brooch. It is missing the integral pin and spring, as well as the outer edge of the catchplate, due to old breaks. The brooch has flat, rectangular wings, separated at their centre by integrally cast spring chord and pin, both of which are now incomplete due to old breaks. At its head the bow is rectangular in section and tapers to a tapering oval sectioned bow with pointed foot. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast catchplate that is triangular in form and missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The entire object has extremely worn surfaces and measures 29.25mm in length, 14.54mm in width at wings, 5.99mm in width at bow, 2.07mm in thickness at bow, and 2.79g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman Colchester brooch similar to examples in Hattatt (e.g. Hattatt, 1989: no. 15). It is of 1st century AD date, c.25-65 AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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