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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman bow-and-fantail brooch with some enamelling surviving. It consists of the central bow (14.5mm in diameter with a central piercing) and damaged fantail, an incomplete 15mm in length. The bow has traces of red enamel. Its piersing is 3mm in diameter. Both piercing and bow are flanked by a c.1mm wide rim. The fantail is rather more decoartive with a central cross showing traces of red enamel. At its centre is a raised roundel 2mm in diameter. The resulting four corners of the fantail are squarish and still retain blue enamel. Presumably the end of the fantail was straight, although now to one side and just below the cross the edge is concave. Equally the other side appears to be so though is clearly damaged. In the case of the former, this could also be damage, but curiously the decoration appears to stop here, and one wonders how much longer the fantail could have been. To the reverse a worn and broken catchplate extends. Above the bow is a little C-sectioned ridge, presumably the remainders of the wings. Weighs 2.87g. Its length is 28mm. 1st/ 2nd century in date. | 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: | 1
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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