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Description: | A Roman Polden Hill type brooch (AD c. 80-120): The copper alloy brooch is incomplete, the wings are missing. At the upper edge of the wings and bow head there is a trace of an integral hook which would have held the chord in place. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and a portion is missing, but not recently. The bow is decorated with a low-relief rectangular panel which tapers slightly towards the foot, as does the bow. The bow is sub oval in section, and gradually tapers to blunt broken point. There are no traces of the catchplate on the reverse of the bow which appears to be broken above the catchplate. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete well developed dark brown coloured patina. It measures 35.42mm long, 9.99mm wide across the wings and weighs 5.7g.The brooch is probably a Polden Hill type. Bayley and Butcher (2004:160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands and suggest they date to AD 80 to 120.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: Society of Antiquaries
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