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Colchester type two-piece brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Julian Watters, 2004-08-05 12:55:22
Title
Colchester type two-piece brooch
Description
English: Copper-alloy brooch of early Roman date. Incomplete Colchester type two-piece brooch dating to the 1st C. AD. The head of the brooch measures 7.9mm wide by 3mm high and has become slightly bent after deposition. The spring remains attached. It has five coils of copper-alloy wire and an external chord which is held in place by a rearward lug on the head of the brooch. The axis bar and pin are missing. The bow is sub-circular in section, with a slightly flattened underside. It measures 3.2mm diameter at the top, tapering to a point at the foot. Only a remnant of the catchplate remains. Overall, the piece measures 34.9mm high and weighs 2.71g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hertfordshire
Date between 43 and 100
Accession number
FindID: 71939
Old ref: BH-21BBD4
Filename: Roman brooch 04.151-5.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/32682
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/32682/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/71939
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