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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy one-piece bow brooch of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date, possibly 80BC-AD60. Length 51mm, width of spring 10.5mm, width of bow 5.8mm, thickness of bow 1.6mm. Weight 3.37g. The pin has broken near the spring and is missing (an old break). The spring is of four coils with an underslung chord. Both the spring and chord are circular in cross-section. The bow is flat at the front and also at the rear. Viewed from the side it has a moderate curve. Viewed from the front the profile of the bow tapers to a point at the foot. The front of the bow is decorated with two longitudinal grooves which create three equal sized zones. Within each groove are fifteen regularly spaced indentations which appear to have been created by punching. Just below this decoration on either side of the front of the bow there is an indistinct transverse groove which extends around to the rear of the bow where it becomes more obvious. Viewed from the side, the un-stepped catch-plate is triangular in shape. Both faces of the catch-plate have a number of scratch marks which were probably created in antiquity whilst the user was securing the pin to the catch-plate. The brooch has an even dark green patina overall. | 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: | -100
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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