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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, crossbow type. Complete, worn/abraded surfaces. Soil has been concreted onto the pin slot area and in the catchplate, sandy grey-brown. The pin is iron. The crossarm is rectangular in section with a small notched front projection. The (?integral) end knobs are onion shaped with a single rib collar. The top knob however is spherical, probably hollow, with a centre seam and no base - this looks like a replacement, and it seems possible that there are several small rivet marks as well as one large one on the underside of the bow beneath the knob, but all are obscured by soil concretion. The bow is narrow with steep sides. There are small side flanges at the base of the bow. The foot, which is longer than the bow, has side facets and two pairs of deep (c 1.7mm deep) circular pits, with shaped end (as Hattatt no.104, but this has C-mouldings rather than pits). The catchplate is shallow and as wide as the foot. Width 51.5mm, length 77mm. ?crossbow type 3/4. Crossbows are widely distributed on the Danube-Rhine frontiers and most often found in military and large urban contexts in Britain. Recovery of a completely intact example is unusual - it shares this and a possible Roman military context with several other brooches in this group. If definitely from a field in the suggested area a cemetery might be a possibility.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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