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Description: | Copper alloy T-shaped/tapering bow brooch. Broken chain loop at the head. Tubular wings housing an iron axis bar for the copper alloy hinged pin (looped end only survives). Head is a rectangular, longitudinal panel decorated with triangular and lozenge recesses for enamel (wide triangle at the top and bottom with two lozenge recesses between). At the base of this panel is a transverse moulded ridge. Below this is a large "acanthus" style knob. Below is the leg with two transverse ridges at the top. The leg is otherwise undecorated and tapers into a stepped foot. At the back is a large catchplate The back of the brooch is hollowed behind the head and knob. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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