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Description: | Near complete copper alloy Roman bow brooch of Polden Hill type and dating to the 1st century AD. The brooch is missing only the spring and is distorted along the lower bow. The brooch employed a spring mechanism, secured by a Polden Hill claw type arrangement. The wings are relatively short (19.3mm) and are undecorated except for the expanded terminals. The head is comparatively flat with the bow emerging laterally, as opposed to the usual curved ?dolphin? profile. There are two rounded side knops on the head, with a further three knops along each side of the upper bow and flanking a rectangular panel, which is likely to have once held enamel. The upper bow has a D-shaped section. The lower bow has two parallel vertical mouldings springing from two ?leaves? beneath the rectangular panel. The foot is rounded and globular and the catch-plate is plain. | 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 | 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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