Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: LVPL930
Object type certainty: Certain
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Earlier sprung type with semi-tubular wings and a single rearward claw. Median rib on bow and incised curving line on either side of the head and down either side of the bow converging on the median rib. The wing terminals are also defined by an incised. The catchplate is broken and the pin and spring are missing.
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Class: Colchester derivative, Polden Hill
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 175
Quantity: 1
Length: 43 mm
Width: 22 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st September 1998
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Hattatt, R. | 1987 | Brooches of Antiquity: a third selection of brooches from the author's collection | Oxford | Oxbow Books | pp. 92-96 |