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Description: | The foot from a Roman cast copper alloy bow-and-fantail brooch. The brooch fragment is trapezoidal with slightly convex edges. There are three recesses on the front which would have held enamel (which does not survive) and some other decoration which is incised. The largest recess is centrally placed at the end of the fantail. It is hourglass-shaped. On each side of the hourglass there is a small circular recess. This pattern appears to be a more abstract version of a design which appears on other bow-and-fantail brooches, for example, no. 76/461/815 in figure 174 of Hattatt's Visual Catalogue (2000, p. 315), which has no provenance and SWYOR-747300, from Lotherton-cum-Aberford, North Yorkshire. The enamel recesses are bordered with incised lines and there is also a pair of vertical parallel lines between the hourglass and the narrow end of the fantail and a line which runs around the edge of the fantail. This is missing in some places due to damage. On the reverse are the remains of a vertical catchplate. The brooch fragment is quite worn and the original surface has flaked off in several areas. It probably dates from the 1st or 2nd century AD.Dimensions: 27.31mm by 19.14mm by 3.88mmWeight: 7.75g
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