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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch dating from the late 1st to early 2nd centuries, circa AD80-120. The brooch is a Polden Hill type. The spring and pin are missing and the catch plate and wing caps are incomplete due to old breaks. The wings have a hollow, semi-cylindrical form with incomplete wing caps at either end. A partial perforation survives on one of the wing caps. The wings are undecorated. The bow head is hump-like in profile with the remains of a central hook, which would have secured the spring, protruding down over the wings. The top of the bow head is decorated with two recessed lines forming a 'V'. From the apex of the 'V' a double rib runs down the middle of the bow and terminates at the foot of the brooch. A row of recessed triangles is present on both sides of the ribbing. The recesses probably originally contained enamelling. The bow has a D-shaped cross section. On the underside of the bow a raised spine begins at the base of the wings and expands into a catch plate. The foot of the brooch terminates in a collared knop. The front of the bow has an even dark green patina. The underside of the brooch has an uneven mid-green / brown patina. It measures 51.25mm long, and 20.22mm wide across the wings. The width of the bow just below the head is 7.27mm and the thickness at the same point is 4.65mm. . Weight is 10.5g.A comparable Polden Hill type brooch is recorded in Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britian: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries, p159, fig 128. Bayley and Butcher comment that Polden Hill brooches are typically found in the West Midlands area and date from circa AD80-120.
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