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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, Nauheim type. Missing tip of bow and half catchplate; incomplete pin; the bow is very bent; all surfaces have some corrosion pitting. The spring chord is internal. The flat bow is 11.5mm wide at the top, tapering to a point; it has a central narrow rib and single narrow ribs along the edges with slightly convex intervening areas, subdivided on the upper half by longitudinal grooves. The surviving catchplate fragment shows that it was open. Original length c. 82mm. The true Nauheim forms are generally pre-Roman. | 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
40 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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