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Description: | An incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative Polden Hill variant bow brooch. It is missing one wing, the spring, pin, axis bar, foot and separately cast catch plate due to old breaks, now worn.The brooch has the remains of a semi-cylindrical wing that has a folded, fully enclosed, cylindrical end. The outer edge of the front of the wing is decorated with two transverse wavey ribs. At the centre of the wings is a rear-facing hook that would have held in place the axis bar. The rear hook extends onto top of the bow. The bow is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face, tapering to old breaks. The front face of the bow is decorated with two longitudinal wavey ribs. On the back face at the base of the bow is the remains of a slot still containing part of a separately cast sheet catch plate.This brooch measures 39.30mm in length, 23.09mm in width at the wings, 8.94mm in width at the bow, 6.35mm in thickness, 48.31g in weight.These brooches have been categorised as Scole 2 and similar examples have been discovered in East Anglia (Ashley and Marsden et al, 2014, p. 38, no. 2-3). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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