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Description: | RB Crossbow brooch, pin missing & catchplate damaged in antiquity. .Slight modern surface damage on reverse has revealed the true colour of the metal. The knobs of a faceted form. The top knob, which has a marked carination, sits on two sharp mouldings. The cross-arm has a disc moulding next to the knobs & on both sides of the bow a projecting rib pierced by a three-quarter round hole & deep knick. The bow is narrower than the foot, & has a median row of punched dots, & towards the top diagonal slashes. These have been worn away, or were never present, lower down.. There is no moulding at the base of the bow, at the rear of which is a pin safety bolt hole. The front of the foot has a median band of ?niello filled decoration apparently the same as that on Hattatt no.1267, & on both sides fan-shaped & partly fan-shaped mouldings. The outer part of the catch-plate is missing throughout its length. The metal is quite thick & may have been deliberately broken.Of Ellen Swift's (2000) type 2ii, & dating to the middle of the 4th cent. An extremely close parallel comes from Chartres & is in the Maison d'archéologie there (Swift 2000, fig.3). Mid 4th cent. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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