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Description: | A nicely preserved Roman copper-alloy bow brooch. The brooch is a Colchester derivative of the Dolphin type. The brooch is large at 78 mm in length, and the wings span 44 mm. The bow tapers from 12 mm wide at its head to 4 mm at its foot. The brooch has a large catchplate which protrudes from 35 mm up the bow. It is perforated with two triangular holes with a perforated bridge between them. The reverse of the catch plates pin recess is decorated with an incised zig zag. The obverse surface of the bow is decorated with a central ridge which runs down the length of the brooch. This ridge is decorated with herring bone and horizontal lines. The wings are each decorated with an incised diagonal band. The wings are tubular for retention of the hinged pin bar. The iron pin is now missing and there is some slight ferrous corrosion to the head where it was once attached. There is also some slight ferrous corrosion to the left wing tip, if one looks at the brooch as it was intended to be worn. The brooch dates from the mid 1st to the early 2nd century AD. Similar examples of bow brooches can be seen in Hattat (1982, pages 64-68; figs 17-23). | 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
125 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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