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Description: | Roman Polden Hill type brooch (ADc. 80-120): The copper alloy brooch has wings which are semi-cylindrical, and terminate with incomplete perforated wing caps. The wings are undecorated. At the upper edge of the wings and bow head there is a perforated lug which would have held the chord, of which there is a fragment remaining. The axis bar, spring and pin, are all missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile, but is shallow in depth. The bowhead is tapers to the bow which is broken above the bow foot. The bow head and bow are decorated with two vertical ridges which has fine transverse grooves. The exterior edges of the bow has a fine ridge as decoration. The reverse of the bow does not have any traces of the catchplate remaining. The surface of the brooch has a light grey- green abraded patina. It measures 31.52mm long, 14.55mm wide across the wings and weighs 5.29g.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 AD80 to 120.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough CollectionLondon: Society of Antiquaries
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