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Description: | Copper alloy, Langton Down type brooch. Flat bow of a small curvature expanding towards the missing foot. The bow is decorated with fluted reeding which runs along its entire length and terminates at the moulded transverse rib located at the bow's junction with the spring-cover. The catch plate is deformed and partly missing but contained a single perforation of indeterminate shape. The cylindrical spring-cover is open along a slit on the back of the brooch and at either end. Only two incomplete fragments of the brooch survive. The bow has been bent through ninety degrees, although it is uncertain whether this occurred during antiquity or not. The entire spring and pin element is missing. Surviving length c.47mm. An example of Hull's Class B (cf. Hawkes and Hull 1947, 317), closely paralleled by published examples from near Wimbourne, Dorset (Hattatt 1985, 36, no.269, fig.15) and France (Hattatt 1987, 43, no.770, fig.16). Although a number of examples of the type are known from pre-Roman contexts the majority of British examples are presumed to date to the early Roman period. In general, British examples of the type are dated from the second and into the third quarter of the first century AD (Hattatt 1982, 80; Mackreth 1994, 294). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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