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Description: | Heavily tinned or silvered copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment, probably a P-shaped brooch, 2nd-3rd century. There is a great deal of iron corrosion at the back of the cylindrical wings, where the axis bar (or possibly spring) would have been. The pin is missing. There is a small protruding rounded knop with flattened back at the centre of the top of the head (designed to prevent the pin mmoving too far back). A groove containing a raised chorded line runs the length of the wings. There is a semicircular raised moulding at the top of the wide & flat-sectioned bow, and this is followed by a double bordered rectangle running down the bow - the left and right sides of the outer border are decorated with transverse lines. The brooch is broken a short way down the bow, apparently across a round perforation / rivet hole. Tinned/silvered on all surfaces. The angle at which the bow is set, and the knop on the top of the head, suggest this is a P-shaped brooch. Length 25.10mm, width 25.46mm, thickness (front of wings to back of spring) 7.46mm, weight 7.24g.
Two similar P-shaped brooches, with knop on head and similar decoration on wings and start of bow, are included in Hattatt (fig 226, no.s 1252 & 494) although these have knobs on the bow. This brooch may also have originally had knobs on the bow, but it is now broken - a knob may possibly have been attached at the perforation on the bow. | 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: | 150
275 | 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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