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Description: | The brooch is a Cross-Bow type. Hattat dates these brooches to the 3rd to 4th centuries. Hattat illustrates a similar brooch in Ancient Romano British Brooches, No. 103. The brooch is made of cast copper alloy.
The ?wings? of the brooch are sub-oval in section. The wings terminate with a large bulbous knop. The wings and knop are cylindrical with a small hole running through. The hole is exposed in the central portion of the wings by a ?T? shaped slot. The axis bar and pin are missing from the wings.
The bow head and wings form a sub- ?Y? shape in plan. At the junction of each arm there is a circular hole with the remains of a broken copper alloy rivet or stud within it. The stud is visible on the reverse of the brooch as well. This stud would have formed the usual third bulbous knop, which tends to be found on Crossbow brooches.
The bow is trapezoidal in section and is undecorated. The bow is broken just before the apex of the bow. The break is possibly recent as the patina does not cover the break.
The surface of the brooch has a well developed green/grey coloured patina. The brooch measures 16.79g. It measures 41.2mm across the wings and is 23.2mm long from the centre of the wings to the break of the bow. | 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: | 200
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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