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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative (Polden Hill style) brooch of Roman date (AD 75-175). The wings are semi-cylindrical with the left hand side wing and cap missing. The axis bar, spring, pin, catchplate and foot are all lost. The spring would have been held by an external chord that attached to a rearward facing hook which is partially intact at the centre of the wings on the upper edge. The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow would have extended to a foot which is missing. The filled rib which would have formed the catchplate is evident running vertically along the back face of the bow. The brooch has two vertical incised lines that originate either side of the hook at the centre of the brooch head and come together and taper to a point half way along the bow. The brooch is a mid green colour with an even polished surface patina. Similar brooches can be seen in Richard Hattatt's Visual Guide to Ancient brooches pp 300 fig; 159. There are also examples on the database discovered in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire (HESH-4F5143) and Brailed, Warwickshire (WAW-EB1174). The brooch is a Polden Hill type. Bayley and Butcher (2004:p160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands.The brooch measures 32.9mm length, 16.9mm width (across wings), 6.8mm width across bow, is 5.4mm thick across the bow, and weighs 9.1 grams.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S.(2004)Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough CollectionReports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 68, Society of Antiquaries of London.Hattatt,R. (2000)A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches.Oxford, Oxbow Books.
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