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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill / T-shaped type and of later 1st or 2nd century AD dateThe brooch is incomplete, missing the spring, catch-plate and foot (with a surviving length of 50.5mm, a surviving depth of 16.6mm and a weight of 15.4g). The missing spring was secured between perforated lateral lugs and the chord was tensioned by a lug at the head, in a 'Polden Hill, lug type' arrangement. The wings are semi-cylindrical (with a width of 23.8mm and a diameter of 7.6mm) and the terminals are decorated with a ribbed moulding, enhanced with a single groove. The top of the head is rectangular and flat with the damaged chord lug. The sides of the bow have a curved moulding on each side at the head (giving the bow a width of 9.8mm), below which, they are decorated with curvilinear mouldings. The upper bow is of sub-rectangular section, with straight parallel sides (with a width of 7.4mm and a thickness of 6.5mm). The front of the bow is decorated with two vertical rectangular cells, holding alternating coloured enamels, now yellow and pale blue to turquoise. The top of the leg is defined by leaf mouldings on each side and further curvilinear mouldings continue along the leg to the break. The leg is of oval section with straight sides converging towards the missing foot. The remnants of the catch-plate are evident as a rib on the rear of the leg. The base of the leg has corroded to a point. The surface has a dark drown patina with areas of pale-green corrosion.The brooch may be viewed as typologically unusual; the spring arrangement is typical of Polden Hill type brooches, sometimes seen on T-shaped brooches but both the mouldings and enamelled decoration is best paralleled on Trumpet derivative brooches of Wroxeter Type.
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