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Description: | Copper alloy bow brooch. Almost complete (foot only is missing). Trumpet style head which is hollow backed to house the sprung pin mechanism. There is a chain-loop at the top of the head. The bow is rectilinear and tapers toward the foot. If is decorated with two rectilinear longitudinal recesses for enamel which extend to the mid point of the bow. There is a cross moulded band on the lower part of the bow. There is a catchplate at the back. The brooch has been repaired twice in antiquity. The head had begun to split away from the bow and has been reattached with a copper alloy staple. The pin had broken off, leaving the original chord and spring, and another pin has been attached (or possibly the original re-attached) with a loop and a half leaving the end protruding to act as a tension stop to give the pin spring. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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