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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 head of the brooch including the wings, spring, spring hook and top of the bow survive. The pin is missing and the bow tapers to a broken edge just below the wings. The wings are semi-cylindrical and terminate with complete wing caps. The spring, which is made from copper alloy, is heavily corroded but probably has at least 6 coils. The wings are undecorated. The bow head is hump-like in profile and a central hook to retain the spring is present. The remains of heavily abraded moulded decoration survive on the top of the bow head which probably comprise of two ridges which gradually join together at the top of the bow forming a 'V' shape. The break of the bow is too worn to discern the shape of the section. The surface of the brooch has an uneven light green / brown patina. Overall the brooch is in poor condition with abraded surfaces and corrosion. The length of the brooch is 17.46mm. The width at the wings is 19.06mm. The width of the bow just below the wings is 6.34mm and the thickness at the same point is 3.14mm. Weight is 5.2g.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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