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Description: | Early Medieval cast copper alloy supporting arm brooch. This brooch was previously recorded on this database as an "unknown type" late Roman bow brooch. The original discription of the object has been kept below:
The head of the brooch is formed from a semicylindrical spring case, that is essentially a flat, rectangular panel capped at either end. The rectangular panel is decorated to the front with two moulded steps and a moulded horizontal beaded line that runs along the bottom edge of the first step. Within the spring case the springhead survives intact in the case with six coils, with a short length of the internal spring cord surviving. Nothing of the pin shaft survives. The bow of the brooch humps from the spring case with a semicircular section, which is bevelled to the top. It has a distinct C shaped profile before turning down into a short vertical foot. The foot ends without a foot knob. The top of the bow is decorated with an integral rectangular band, which has a triangular nick out of either end. Above this band is a horizontal, moulded beaded line. This decorative feature is mirrored at the bottom of the bow. Running vertically down the centre of the bow, the brooch is decorated with a faint line of transverse dashes. The very top of the foot is decorated with a moulded, horizontal beaded line, with squarer beads, and then the nicked band with beaded line below is repeated. The solid catchplate survives almost complete with the curled catch intact. Though the spring shows some orangey brown corrosion and there is a small patch of light green where the bottom of the foot has been slightly damaged, the brooch survives in good condition, with an unabraded, even mid-green patina. The brooch is 30.52mm long, 15.02mm wide across the head, 4.9mm wide across the bow and weighs 5.98g. | 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: | 400
450 | 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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