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Description: | Copper alloy crossbow brooch. Complete except perhaps the pin is missing the end (within catchplate); worn and corroded areas on the surface, probably quite heavily cleaned. Wide hexagonal section crossarm with double rib moulding at junction with rounded knobs. Headknob cast on the top of the bow, smaller and also rounded on a cylindrical base. The narrow trapezoidal section bow has traces of punched ?triangles along the centre and a single rib/flange above the junction with the foot. The foot has a central facetted area; each of the flat areas above and below this have a group of four ring and dot motifs. There is notching on the end of the foot. The catchplate extends the full length of the foot and is open at the end. Width 55mm, length 68.5mm. The elements are mainly as Type 1 crossbows, ie late 3rd to early 4th century (though the foot decoration is commoner on Types 3/4?). This is one of a group of brooches which are unusual in their completeness. | 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: | 280
330 | 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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