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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical and terminate with incomplete perforated wing caps. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are decorated with vertical ribbing. The bow head is quite flat in profile, not hump-like. At the junction of the bow head and wings there is an integral perforated lug with a fragment of the chord within the lug. The bow head is decorated by a vertical ridge which continues down the upper portion of the bow but tapers in depth and width. The bow gradually tapers to a break at the approximate mid point. The break is not recent. The brooch has a dark brown, slightly abraded patina. It measures 24.66mm long, 26.05mm wide across the wings and weighs 5.3g.The brooch is a Polden Hill type. 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 suggest they date to AD 80 to 120.
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