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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester type one-piece brooch (AD 25-60), missing the spring, pin and most of the catchplate (with a width of 16.5 mm, a length of 68 mm, a thickness of 2.4 mm and a weight of 4.4 g). The head has very delicate wings. The bow projects outwards from the head before turning sharply in an arch and curving back on itself towards the foot, as it is now bent roughly in half. The bow is triangular in plan and plano-convex in section. The head has a width of 10 mm and a thickness of 2.2 mm and narrows towards the foot, with a width 3.1 mm above the catchplate. The foot is triangular in section and 5 mm thick, and the base of the catchplate survives as a slight ridge. There is not much decoration discernable on the bow except a possible rivet 22 mm from the head of the brooch that runs through the bow and is 2 mm in diameter. The brooch has areas of pale green and copper-coloured corrosion and patches of black organic matter attached to the soil at the back of the bow which suggest that it might have been burnt in a fire, perhaps a cremation.It has the classic head features of a Colchester type one -piece brooch, with the remains of the connecting hook for spring at the centre of the head, and the length seems to correspond with this type. Unfortunately the real distinguishing features are absent and the curve of the bow is unclear as it has been bent back on itself and the foot widens towards the catchplate which appears to be plain and formed from the same rod, similar to the La Tene III form referred to below.Hattatt (2000) illustrates a similar Colchester type one-piece brooch on page 296, fig.155, no.14, which is dated from the 1st century AD.Bayley and Butcher (2004) illustrate a similar Colcester one-piece brooch or La Tene III brooch on page 146, fig.107, no.T90, which is dated from the 1st century AD.A Colchester type brooch with similar minimal wings is recorded on the database IOW-2581CD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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