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Description: | A Roman Polden Hill type brooch (AD c. 80-120): The copper alloy brooch is incomplete. The wings are semi-cylindrical, and terminate with perforated, incomplete, wing caps. The wings are undecorated. At the upper edge of the wings and bow head there is the trace of an integral hook which would have held the chord in place. The copper alloy axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is undecorated. The bow is undecorated, oval in section and tapers to a broken edge below the wings. The break is quite old as the patina covers it. The surface of the brooch has a dark green coloured patina. It measures 21.22mm long, 25.75mm wide across the wings and weighs 8.78g.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.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: Society of Antiquaries
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