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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, unusual bow brooch type. Upper part only, missing pin and hinge bar; corroded on the bow surfaces. The pin was hinged, the hinge bar being held in cast semicircular housings on the back of the wings (as on headstud types with hinged pins). The wings are flat, 1.5 mm thick where they project beyond the hinge casing (at the ends and slightly round the edges). There is no surviving decoration and the ends of the wings are rounded - this is slightly exaggerated by corrosion. The bow is rectangular in section at the junction with the wings except for a slightly convex front. It tapers very slightly and is thinner (2.1mm maximum) at the break. A trace survives of single grooves along the edges. Width 25mm, surviving length 18mm. This is not a standard brooch type; the pin attachment system suggests a relationship to headstud (and some Trumpet) types but lacks any sign of the headloop normal on these types. The date is therefore likely to be around the 2nd century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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