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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of the Polden Hill type (hinged), dating from the second century AD. The brooch is missing the lower half of the bow including the foot and catchplate. The arms of the brooch are cylindrical with the remains of the integral end-caps visible; there is the remains of a white metal, possibly lead or possibly corroded iron, visible at the end of one of the arms. Part of the hinged pin is retained. The head of the brooch as a rounded loop, now corroded closed. The upper section of the bow is decorated with lozenge-shaped cells that may have held enamel, although no trace of this survives. Below the cells are two thin raised horizontal collars above a protruding, slightly down-turned crescentic horizontal knop with bulbous petalling above and below. Beneath this the rest of the brooch is broken and missing. Mackreth (2011 Plate 67) illustrates a very similar example to that recorded here (no. 12141, from Shepton Mallet, Somerset; this has fewer cells), so much so that they may be from the same workshop. Although no dating is readily available for the Shepton Mallet example, brooches in the same style are dated to between AD 130-350.
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