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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragments from the Lion bow (Leontomorphe) variant of the Rosette type. Upper half onlymissing pin and corroded. The spring is fully enclosed. No decoration survives on the spring cover except for a trace of a terminal groove. The upper bow is flat-backed and has a triple moulding on the front which derives from a crouched lion facing the foot. The upper bow ends just below the lion moulding in a rounded shape with an integral rivet on the back. Fragments were found with the brooch of the top of the lower bow, which is flat with a rectangular end and a rectangular hole for the upper bow rivet. Between the two bow elements there was a flat plate with sheet metal repousse decorative element attached. Small fragments of both the plate and the decorative sheet survive, the plate with a rectangular hole and the repousse sheet with a larger circular hole. There is part of a straight outer edge which suggests a polygonal (sub circular) plate rather than the lozenge shape reconstructed by Hattatt (no. 280). Width 27mm, length (upper bow piece)26mm. A similar example from Hacheston (Blagg et al, EAA106, 2004, 92-93 no 55) also probably had a circular plate. | Subjects: | Lion bow rosette | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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