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Description: | Cast copper-alloy bow brooch; Polden Hill variant. Incomplete; catchplate and pin missing. Wide, semi-cylindrical wings, short rearward hook to hold external chord. The cross-bar is elaborately moulded with four ridges on either side of the bow; the ridges closest to the bow and at the terminals are knurled. The bow has short vertical mouldings at either sidewhich do not extend beyond the line of the wings. There are two incised lines running down the length of the bow and two short horizontal mouldings on the top of the bow, in front of the rearward hook. Smooth, even green patina.
L: 35 W: 25 (good) | 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
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Sally Worrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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