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Description: | Roman Polden Hill type brooch (c. 80 to c. 120): The copper alloy brooch is incomplete. The wings are semi-cylindrical terminating with incomplete, perforated wing caps. The wings are undecorated. At the junction of the wings and bow head there is a trace of a perforated lug or hook which would have held the chord. The axis bar, spring and pin missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is decorated with a pair of vertical grooves. The bow tapers to a broken edge below the wings. The break is not too recent. The bow is oval in section. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete mid green/grey coloured patina. It measures 17.3mm long, 18.8mm wide across the wings and weighs 4.42g.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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