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Colchester Roman Brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Dave Watson, 2011-09-29 17:12:23
Title
Colchester Roman Brooch
Description
English: A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of Late Iron Age or early Roman date (1st century AD). At the head, the wings are plain flat rectangular pieces with rounded outer ends (17.26mm in total width). From the centre of the underside of the head the integral spring as been pulled out and it has a piece of iron in the coil. The spring has three coils remaining. The bow rises at 75 degrees from the head before curving through 90 degrees and running straight to the foot. It is oval in cross-section with a slightly flattened underside. It tapers in width and thickness to a point at the foot. On the underside of the foot are the worn remains of the catch-plate. The brooch has corroded to a reddish colour with areas of green corrosion product. The brooch is 69.25mm long x 28.65 wide from the back of the bow to the head, the bow cross section tapers from 6mm at the head to 3.64mm at the foot.

Refer to:- LANCUM-016786, HAMP-4207E2, HAMP-62CF42 and NCL-305616.
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Riding of Yorkshire
Date between 25 and 60
Accession number
FindID: 464553
Old ref: PUBLIC-498821
Filename: Colchester Brooch.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/347992
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/347992/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/464553
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Object location53° 46′ 29.28″ N, 0° 39′ 20.12″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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