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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Crossbow type. Upper part only, missing pin, severe corrosion damage to parts of the surface. The hinge bar is visible in the damaged back of the crossarm. The crossarm is rectangular in section and broadens (viewed from above) towards the bow; it has three V-section grooves on each front face. The knobs are cast integral with the crossarm and each has a narrow rib moulding at the base; the outline of the knobs now appears as a flattened sphere but all are corroded on top and were probably slightly onion-shaped. The bow, of which only a short length survives, is trapezoidal in section; it is impossible to determine what, if any, decoration there was on the front. Surviving length 19 mm, width 38 mm. The surviving elements would fit into Keller types 3 and 4 (redefined as type 3/4, see E. Swift (2000) Regionality in Dress Accessories in the late Roman West, Ch.2), of 4th century date. Broadly similar to Caistor by Yarmouth (EAA 60, 1993) no.10 except for decoration detail. | 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: | 325
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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