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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman bow brooch, probably a Hod Hill/Aucissa variant. The bow is wide at c. 6mm, widening to 12mm at the head. It features a wide medial ridge which itself widens to form the body of the head. At the head the brooch appears to be bent round to form a thin cylinder. This open cylinder would have taken an axis bar around which the pin would have been hinged; the pin would have been attached at a notch in the cylinder (the images do not show this - see notes, below). The axis bar and pin are both now missing. There is a pronounced double knob arrangement at the foot, at the reverse of which is an abraded catchplate which extends 8mm up the bow. This construction - footknob, curved cylinder at head - suggests a Hod Hill type Roman brooch of around the mid 1st century AD | 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: | 40
60 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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