2024-03-28T15:28:20+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352/format/pdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352/format/rdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/953352953352WAW-9695A3PAS5CD9695A00131ABROOCHColchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4.jMackreth Type 4.j. Plate 4829.7715.584.421Finders Ref.: 6511ROMAN70175Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4j,), c.f. Mackreth Type 4.j. Plate 48, AD c. 70-175. The copper alloy brooch has a semi-cylindrical wings which are short and undecorated. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. At the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is an integral hook. The bowhead is angular in profile and the bow is decorated with a a column of lentoid mouldings either side of a vertical rectangular, undecorated panel. The bow is broken when the catchplate starts on the reverse. The bow is a slender pointed oval in section.
The surface of the brooch has a rey-green patina.
It measures 29.77mm in length, 15.58mm in width, and weighs 4.42g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, Bayley and Butcher (2004:160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands and suggest they date to AD 80 to 120. Mackreth (2011) classifies this type as a Type 4j and dates these brooches broadly to c. 70 to 175.
Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: Society of Antiquaries
Mackreth, D. F. 2011 Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain Volume 1 Oxford: Oxbow Books2019-05-13 13:55:542019-05-13 14:22:32412018-03-262018-03-261Certain112121PAS5CD9695A00131A7121WAWCopper alloy10627CastIncompleteFairROMANROx41218p0gjgrs69wsROMANROx41218p0gjgrs69wsMetal detectorCircaCirca9510201004910169994341426SP1163SP1163SP16SW52.26505355-1.840239631011056880WAW9695A3.jpg889315Roman brooch: Polden Hill type (plan and profile).Birmingham Museums Trust4images/abolton/West MidlandsCharacter undeterminedCultivated landEuropean RegionCountyWarwickshireDistrictStratford-on-AvonCivil Parish52.2813-1.83741Morton BagotReturned to finder96665