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Description: | A late Iron Age - early Roman copper alloy incomplete bow brooch, Birdlip type (late 1st century BC - early 1st centuryAD). The brooch originally would have sprung with an axis bar through a perforated rearward lug and internal chord. This fragment comprises moulded zoomorphic ornament on the bow. The bow has a lozenge-shaped cross-section that flares as it curves up towards the head of the brooch. A scar on the reverse possibly indicates the original positioning of the spring mechanism. The zoomorphic head was cast three-dimensionally with a projecting snout, two circular 'pits' for eyes (possibly another material was originally inlaid into the 'pits') and two long ears curving over the head. A bow brooch with a very similar zoomorphic ornament is illustrated in Hattatt (2000:295 fig.154 no. 264)Dimensions: length: 28.05mm; width: 13.25mm; thickness: 19.47mm; weight: 9.89g.Identification by Peter Reavill (FLO Shropshire and Herefordshire) and Sally Worrell (Prehistoric and Roman Finds Advisor). Reference: Hattatt, R. 2000. A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches. Oxbow Books., Oxford.
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