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Description: | Complete (but with bent pin) Late Iron Age/ Roman copper alloy Strip-Bow brooch, measuring 78.61mm in length and weighing 10.05g.The wings - which are wider than the top of the bow - are 15.38mm in width and roll backwards, away from the bow. The top of the bow is 9.43mm just below the V-shaped slot for the pin. This narrows over the length of the bow to 0.70mm at the foot. A line of tiny horizontal grooves c.0.7mm in length runs down the centre of the bow.A short catchplate extends to the rear. The curl is slightly damaged.The hinged pin, though bent outwards along its shaft, is intact and swivels on the axis bar held by the wings.Bayley and Butcher (2004, p.154) think that this type of Strip-Bow brooch - with the wings curled away from the bow - may be pre-Conquest in date, although examples from Maiden Castle in Dorset have been found in contexts AD 25-70 (Wheeler 1943 fig.84 nos.17-27).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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