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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy 1st century Romano-British bow brooch. The side wings of this brooch are complete and semicylindrical. They are decorated to the front with transverse, raised lines along each wing. There are no remains of a lug behind the head, or of any hook that may have fixed the spring chord. The spring and pin shaft are entirely missing. Running from the head onto the bow is a crest, that has what appears to be, a deliberate notch taken out at the highest point. This may have held a decorative setting of some type. The bow is complete and tapers to a moulded foot knob with three raised, horizontal lines. The bow is abraded but appears to be plain. It is semicircular in section. The reverse of the bow has a raised seam that runs along its length into the top of the catchplate. The curled catchplate is complete and solid. The patina of the object is an even light green. All breaks are worn smooth and similarly patinated suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch is 37.24mm long, 20.84mm wide across the wings, 3.92mm wide across the bow, 4.14mm thick and weighs 5.32g. This brooch is possibly a ?Colchester? type ?BB?. A similar brooch can be seen in Hattatt, 1985 page 30, number 259. Brooches of this type date from between c65AD-80AD. | 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: | 65
80 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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