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Description: | Head fragment from a Roman bow brooch of Dolphin or Polden Hill type and dating to the 1st century AD. The brooch has broken at the top of the bow, beneath the head. The spring mechanism is secured by means of a Polden Hill claw type device. The wings are decorated with two pairs of vertical incised lines on each side. The bow is of oval section at the break and is decorated at the head with a central rib which extends into the claw securing the chord. | 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: | 1
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Mark Lodwick | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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