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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy mid 1st century Romano-British bow brooch. This fragment represents the head and heavily truncated bow of the brooch. The wings are damaged to both sides but were semicylindrical. Behind the head is a lug with two perforations, now blocked with corrosion product. The heavily corroded spring coil does remain but the pin shaft is entirely missing. There does not appear to be a crest running from the head onto the bow. The bow is oval in section, flattened and tapers. It is decorated with a centrally grooved line. The bow is truncated and the break point is worn smooth suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The object is abraded and the original surface of the brooch is missing. The exposed surface now has a mid brown patina with patches of light brown. The corroded spring coil is bright green. Other damage is similarly patinated suggesting that this also occurred in antiquity. The fragment is 15.64mm long, 15.22mm wide across the remains of the wings, 4.6mm wide across the bow, 2.76mm thick and weighs 2.06g. | 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
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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