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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy brooch dating to the Roman period, circa AD80-120. A Polden Hill type brooch. The head of the brooch including a wing and a spring hook survive. The brooch was damaged in antiquity. The surviving wing has a partially surviving, perforated wing cap. The face of the wing is undecorated. A forward facing spring hook survives above the wing. Below the wing, the head of the brooch is flattened. A recess is present on the flattened head of the brooch, possibly to help retain enamel or some other form of decoration. The head of the brooch terminates in a break imediately below the wing.Length: 16.91mm. Width at wing: 15.51mm. Width below the wing is 7.35mm, thickness at the same point is 4.47mm. Weight: 4.1g. 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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