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Description: | Copper alloy Roman bow brooch, possibly a headstud type or variant. Hinge mechanism. The pin has broken off, although there is a flat plate, bent to the right where the pin should be - perhaps this is the pierced plate at the top of the pin, which has become dislodged from the pin bar. The upper edge of the short wings is undecorated. The underside of each wing is flattened (giving them a triangular section) and decorated with three raised transverse lines. The wings angle backwards towards the ends. There is a suspension loop at the top of the bow, now broken. There is a flat, apparently circular, moulding 5mm down the bow from the loop, at the point where the bow arches. A thick raised rounded rib runs down the centre of the bow from the bottom of the stud. The end of the bow (including the catchplate) is broken off - this is an old break. The bow appears to be slightly twisted to the back and left side (as though it had been twisted and snapped by a right handed person?). Probably 2nd century. Length 22.32mm, width (of wings) 17.14mm, thickness (bow to back of wings) 9.40mm, width of top of bow 7.54mm, thickness of wings 6.94mm (at junction with bow)- c.3.6mm (at ends), weight 5.24g. | 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: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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