brooch
- Museum number
- 2011,8012.36
- Description
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A copper-alloy Colchester Derivative brooch of Polden Hill type, complete and undistorted, though the spring and pin are corroded and the pin fractured. The bilateral spring is intact on the axis bar, its chord secured in the rearward facing hook; the wings have neatly-cut mouldings; the very lightly faceted bow and foot are plain; and the catch-plate has a triangular opening.
- Production date
- 1-100
- Dimensions
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Length: 48.90 millimetres
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Weight: 8.29 grammes
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Thickness: 14 millimetres (height of bow)
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Width: 17 millimetres (of spring housing)
- Curator's comments
- Mackreth’s Colchester Derivative Polden Hill Type 3.b (Mackreth 2011, I,71, II, Plate 46, 1806/ 12023).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2019 Oct – Dec, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2019 28 Jun – 28 Sep, Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2019 13 Apr – 16 Jun, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2019 18 Jan – 31 Mar, Ulster Museum, NMNI, Belfast, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2018-2019 13 Oct – 5 Jan, Salisbury Museum, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2015-2016 3 Dec-22 May, BM, G69a, Hoards: The Hidden History of Ancient Britain
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2011,8012.36
- Additional IDs
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Treasure/PAS number: 2002T215(5)
