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Description: | A Roman Polden Hill type brooch (AD c. 80-120): The copper alloy brooch is incomplete, with the lower portion of the bow being missing. The wings are semi-cylindrical, and terminate with incomplete, perforated, wing caps. The wings are decorated with four, equi-distant transverse ridges. At the upper edge of the wings and bow head there is an incomplete, perforated, integral lug which would have held the chord in place. In the interior of the wings, on the reverse, there are traces of a ceramic like black substance. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is decorated on the side faces with a slightly platform, otherwise the bow is undecorated. The bow is oval in section and tapers to a broken point. The break is not recent. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete well developed light brown/green patina.The brooch measures 25.57mm long, 35.28mm wide across the wings and weighs 6.03g.The brooch is 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. A similar decorated brooch is illustrated in Hattat (1987), No. 899.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: Society of AntiquariesHattat, R. 1987 Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford: Oxbow
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