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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with perforated wing cap, both of which are incomplete. The wings are undecorated. At the junction of the wings and bow head there is an integral perforated lug. The axis bar, coil and pin are all missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and decorated with a ridge which leads from the perforated lug. The bow is undecorated. The bow is sub oval in section, and gradually tapers to a blunt foot. The catchplate is fragmentary and may have had openwork as decoration. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete mid brown/green patina which is slightly pitted. It measures 52.86mm long, 27.01mm wide across the wings and weighs 18.3g.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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