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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative (Polden Hill style) brooch of Roman date (AD 75-175).The rearward facing hook is damaged. The spring, pin, footknob are missing. The catch plate is partially intact. The remains of the rearward facing hook is visible, this is located at the centre of the bow on the upper edge. The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The back of the head is hollow, presumably to save weight (as described in a parallel cited it Bayley and Butcher, 2004).The wings are semi-cylindrical. The left handed wing cap terminates with a rib moulding. The right handed wing cap has been partially lost. The bow tapers to a broken terminal. The footknob is missing, most likely to due to plough soil damage as the patina is broken at this point. The catch plate on the rear has been lost due to the break. The break is not recent. The remains are triangular in profile. The upper bow has a band of punched circles or rings between two ribs, terminating in a raised moulded pellet, comprised of two lentoid raised mouldings, terminating in an oval shaped raised pellet. Due to corrosion the form is not fully clear. However, a similar example in Bayley and Butcher, (2004) has described the decoration as being zoomorphic. On the reverse there is fine zigzag ornamentation on both sides of the remains of the catch plate.The brooch has a mid to dark green coloured patina across all surfaces. The patina has been damaged in various places across the brooch.Parallels for the decoration of this brooch include can be found in Bayley and Butcher, (2004, p 91, no. 213). These examples were discovered in Croft Ambrey, Herefordshire (Stanford 1974, no. 2, p 144), Wroxeter, Shropshire (Bushe-Fox 1916, no. 5, p 23), and Woodcock Hall, Norfolk (Brown 1986, no. 128, p 27). A further example may be found on the database discovered in Kington, St Michael, Wiltshire (WILT-CCA397).The entire object measures 55.2mm in length, the width across the wing caps measures 29.2mm and the thickest point on the bow is 7.2mm, it weighs 21.7g.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004. Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: The Society of Antiquaries.
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