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Description: | Fragment of the lower bow and upper foot with catchplate of a brooch with strongly arched bow. Some corrosion/abrasion of the surfaces. The bow arch is 5.5mm wide and it has a slightly convex back. The sides rise to a central angle, giving a thickness of c. 3.5mm, except immediately above the junction with the foot where it is flatter. The foot is tapering and has a slightly convex face with transverse mouldings. The catchplate joins the side of the foot at the junction with the bow and has a strong fold; it narrows slightly towards the (missing) end. Surviving length c.21mm. This fragment is difficult to date with certainty but is likely to be either a Roman P-shaped type (though these more often have transverse mouldings on the lower bow) of 3rd century date or a very early Anglo-Saxon cruciform type (though none of the examples in West 1990, Fig 145 are as narrow as this piece). | 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
500 | 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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