File:A plan and profile view of a Polden Hill type Roman brooch. (FindID 65018).jpg

English: The brooch is a Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type, Lower Severn Valley) cf. Mackreth 2011, 5a4. Plate 50. It is made of cast copper alloy. Its dimensions across the wings is 21.3mm, and the length from the wings to the bow foot is 36.9mm.

The wings are semi-cylindrical with a wing cap at each terminal. The caps have a single central hole, however one cap is incomplete. These holes would have supported the axis bar around which the spring was curled. In this case the axis bar, spring and pin is missing.

The bow head is hump-likewith a vertical central ridge which, as it joins the upper edge of the wings, forms an integral hook or an incomplete loop, probably an incomplete loop in this case. This ridge tapers to a feint point at the mid point of the bow.

The bow is oval shape in sectionand gradually tapers towards the foot. However the lower portion of the bow is missing, and this break maybe quite recent. In plan the bow, below the mid point is bent slightly to one side. On the reverse of the bow, at the lower edge there is a vertical groove, in profile forming a 'U' shaped section in the bow. Presumably this is where the catchplate would have started. The 'U' shaped section is unusual. Otherwise the catchplate and bow foot is missing.

The surface of the brooch has a dark brown patin which is slightly pitted.

In Hattatt's Brooches in Antiquity a similar brooch (No. 896) is dated to the 1st century.