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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Langton Down Type and dating to the 1st century AD (Hattatt 2000 p306 fig 269). The brooch is incomplete and is represented by the head and upper bow only with a surviving length of 23.6mm and a weight of 8.97g. The brooch employed a spring mechanism, of which six coils remain and are viable, although some could be obscured by the cylindrical cover. This cover is open ended cylinder which has been formed of a flat sheet which has been pinched closed. The brooch has a width at the head of 22.9mm. The bow rises perpendicular from the head and then bends by 90 degrees to form the flat bow. The upper bow has a width of 12.4mm at the head and is flat with a thickness of 2.2mm. The front of the bow is decorated with six vertical ribs radiating from a horizontal groove where the head meets the bow. The rear of the bow is plain.
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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