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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of enamelled Polden Hill type and of 1st to 2nd century AD dateThe brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head and spring only (with a surviving length of 17.4mm, a surviving depth of 11.5mm and a weight of 6.7g). The copper alloy spring is present, secured between lateral lugs around a copper alloy axis bar and with the chord tensioned by a lug at the head. The wings (with a width of 20.8mm) are angled to the rear and the terminals were expanded but are now corroded and worn. The lug to tension the chord is triangular and is surmounted on a flat panel at the head. The upper bow is near-perpendicular to the head and is of rectangular section (8.5mm wide and 3.0mm thick) with straight parallel sides for the short distance to the old break. The front of the bow is decorated with two rectangular cells, which are likely to have held alternating coloured squares of enamel. One square or red enamel now survives. The rear of the bow is flat. The surface of the bow has a mid-green patina and has a pale-green corrosion.The brooch can be paralleled with an example recorded by Hattatt (1987, no. 905, p 99-100) from Langton Down in Dorset, which he sees as Polden Hill type but noted the similarities decoration and form with T-shaped brooches corresponding to Hull's type 110 - 111, which are generally hinged rather than sprung. Hull's Types 110 and 111 have been shown to have a distribution centred on the Lower Severn area (Hattatt, 1987, p. 100-8) .1.Hattatt, R., 1987; Brooches of Antiquity
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