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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative Polden Hill bow brooch. It is missing the pin, part of the foot and catch plate due to old breaks, now worn.The brooch has semi-cylindrical wings that have folded, fully enclosed, cylindrical ends. This holds in place a separately cast axis bar, spring chord and spring of 10 surviving coils. The terminals of the wings are decorated with two transverse grooves. The bow is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face, tapering to old breaks. It is decorated on its front face with longitudinal grooves.This brooch measures 28.02mm in length, 26.60mm in width at the wings, 7.38mm in width at the bow, 4.62mm in thickness, 5.83g in weight.There is a similar example from Hacheston (Blagg et al, 2004, pp. 94, no. 77).
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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