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Description: | A Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Langton Down Type dating to the mid 1st century AD (25-60 AD). The brooch is incomplete and is represented by part of the the head and the bow only, most of the catchplate and the spring and pin missing from old breaks. Of the head only part of the cylindrical cover which held the spring survives. This cover is open ended and formed of a flat sheet which would have been pinched closed. The brooch has a remaining width at the head of 16.8mm. The bow rises perpendicular from the head and then bends immediately by 90 degrees to form the straight bow, 42.2mm long. The bow has a relatively new break through a corroded weak point about half way down. The bow has a width of 11.5mm at the head, narrowing to about a third of the way down then has a consistant width of 6.2mm to the foot and is flat in cross section with a thickness of 1.8mm. The front of the bow is decorated with a raised transverse collar where it meets the head and a raised central rib running down the lengh; the rib is wider and thicker at the head then narrows as the bow narrows in the upper part. The foot is square with slightly rounded corners; on the back is the raised central ridge which formed the base of the brokwn catchplate. It weighs 4.44 grams. | Subjects: | Langton Down | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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