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Description: | Copper alloy Roman P-Shaped Divided Bow type brooch. At the head of the brooch the wings are short and concave to accommodate and disguise the spring and pin. At either end there is a backward projecting circular element with a circular aperature in the centre. The bow extends from the lower section of the wings. The upper bow is divided into two elements. Each element tapers and they gradually become closer together. The reverse of each is flat and the upper surface convex so that they are D-shaped in section. Beneath this the top of the leg forms a slightly raised lateral ridge which joins the two elements of the upper bow together. The leg of the bow expands slightly to the rounded foot. The leg is now bent but would characteristically have sloped forwards. The remains of the catchplate survive on the reverse of the leg of the bow. The pin and spring are missing. Patchy mid-dark green patina. Hattatt (1982) has commented that few of these brooches have been found in Britain and that are direct forerunners of early Crossbow brooches. | 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: | 101
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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