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Description: | Near complete cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch, probably a Polden Hill Type variant, with features on the bow more characteristic of T-shaped brooches, probably dating to the late 1st or 2nd Century AD. The brooch is missing the spring and pin, but is otherwise intact. The spring was secured by means of a Polden Hill claw type mechanism. The wings are plain except for the expanded terminals and the top of the head is flat with no hump. The bow is unusual for a Polden Hill for two principal reasons; the upper bow contained two vertical enamelled cells possibly originally decorated with alternating squares of different coloured enamels similar to Wroxeter Type brooches. Also the bow appears more angled than the continuous curve of the ?dolphin? profile usually represented on Polden Type brooches. Beneath the enamelled cells are two diagonal lentoid mouldings or leaves and the dividing rib in the cell continues as a raised rib on the lower bow. The foot is defined by a globular knob. Further decoration is present on the back of the catch plate where two incised horizontal lines are joined by two single diagonals to the foot. | 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: | 50
150 | 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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