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BROOCH
Unique ID: WAW-1D2BC2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (flat wing ends type, West Midlands). The wings are semi-cylindrical, but incomplete. One wing has a trace of a perforated wing cap. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The wings are undecorated and has a small integral hook at the centre of the bow head and wing edge. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and on both sides a ridge is present at the shoulder between the wings and the bow which is fragmentary and is broken just below the wings. The break is not too recent. The bow head and bow are undecorated. The surface of the brooch is abraded. It measures 16.99mm long, 13.12mm wide across the wings and weighs 4.3g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to c. 75 to 175 AD (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter). Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands and narrows the dating to AD 80 to 120.
Class:
Colchester derivative Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 4, flat wing ends type, West Midlands)
Sub class: Mackreth 2011, 4.a-4.b, 4c, Plate 46
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 80
Date to: Circa AD 120
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.99 mm
Width: 13.12 mm
Weight: 4.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st November 2011 - Wednesday 2nd January 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Wyre Forest (District)
Parish or ward: Chaddesley Corbett (Civil Parish)
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