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Description: | Fantail, bow brooch of the Roman period.
Copper alloy. The head consists of a small tubular crossbar in which the pin is hinged. Aboce the brooch is a loop to hold a chain. The bow is narrow with two vertical grooves running down in decoration. Below this the brooch flares to a flat traingular foot. This bears a motif of double trumpet or bud shape, the lines of decoration neeting forming a diamond pattern at the top of the foot. The decoration is silvered. The catchplate lies behind the centre of the flared foot. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anthony, Verity - Museum of Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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